178 a voyage to the Hebrides. April 4, 



round, beautiful to the eye, abounding with good 

 land, and exquisite pasture, very improveable. Mr 

 Maclean has built a neat house of four rooms on a 

 floor, two stories high. Its situation, facing the 

 south and fronting the harbour, very pleasant ; — is 

 building a corn mill to go by water. The corn hi- 

 therto all ground in quearns. He is sole tacksman. 

 Many of the inhabitants must leave the island. 

 Memorandum. 



To make Cannay important, i. The society to ac- 

 cept of Clanronald's offer of a grant of land near the 

 harbour. 



a. To carry out a little pier, and to build a fe\r 

 warehouses for salt and stores. 



3. To provide lime, slate, and wood. 



4. To advance these articles to all persons inten- 

 ding to build houses ; the' interest of their price to be 

 added to the yearly rent of the houses. The lots 

 for houses, thirty feet front, three hundred deep. 



The day fine till the evening. All night it rained 

 hard. Wind due N. 



8th July, Wind all contrary but the day fine. Walked 

 *ut, — examined magnet rocl^ A compafs placed upon 

 it veers to the east and stops there. In pafsing it in a 

 boat, the compafs veers and Ihifts, at last fixes to the 

 east. The rock extends from the harbour half a 

 mile into the island ; said, ridiculously, to be the 

 biggest loadstone in the known world. Ruins of a 

 considerable old castle behind the harbour. At a little 

 distance from thence the rocks are all columnar, like 

 StafFa, and very curious were they not so near StafFa. 



lo be continued. 

 adventurous undertaking at that time, •when they were ignorant of every 

 ■thing that respects this fiii; but its bulk and strength, Edif, 



