82 a voyage to the Hebrides. March 21, 



not if those meagre memorandums will afford 

 Vour readers much entertainment ; but your insert- 

 ing them in your Bee, may serve to perpetuate the 

 memory of an expedition which does great honour 

 to the directors of the society of Britifli fiflieries. 

 That it will prove ultimately beneficial to that ne- 

 glected part of the kingdom, can hardly be doubted, 

 since some persons of high rank, and distinguifhed 

 abilities, have thereby been eye witnefses of the ne- 

 glected state of that country, and of its capability 

 of receiving great improvement by the joint efforts 

 of parliament, the proprietors, and the fifhery so- 

 ciety. I need not tell you, Sir, that the regions sur- 

 veyed by the committee are the principal seat of th» 

 emigrations which have for these last twenty years 

 taken place to a destructive extent in Scotland ; and 

 tiiat the Attention of the public may perhaps be 

 thus awakened to discover the causes, and to admir 

 nister a cure for this great political distemper. 



The society having thought it expedient to have 

 the western coasts of Scotland surveyed and inspected 

 by a committee of their own members, the duke of 

 Argill president, lord Breadalbane vice president. Sir 

 Adam Ferguson, J. H. Mackenzie of Seaforth, esq; 

 Isaac Hawkins Brown, esq; Henry Beaufoy, and 

 George Dempster, esqrs; undertook this expedition. 

 Mr Beiufoy's time not admitting of his accompany- 

 ing the other members by sea, made a journey by 

 land from London, and visited Lochbroom and Gare- 

 loch, and some other parts of the western coasts. 

 He was attended by a surveyor, and had a plan njade 

 ,ei" a town at Ulapole in Lochbroom, which is novir 



