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others said Cailliachan, — by much the greater num- 

 ber preferred Cailliachan. SJept on board. Wind 

 contrarj. 



17th July, Wind crofs. Stayed all day ; sailed in 

 the forenoon to the farm of Slein in Lqchbay ; — it is 

 the finest situation for a town that the committee 

 has yet seen ; cod and ling filhing near, and the bay 

 full of herrings. Hauled up a line, and tooli a fine 

 liag off one of the hooks to which some money was 

 fastened, and the hook let down again. The land 

 near Slein is flat, of excellent quality. Exposure 

 soath, — climate warm, — crops early, — harbour safe, 

 and of easy accefs near the fiihing grounds ; a pier 

 of some expence requisite. Lime-stone within half 

 a. mile by land or water, — free or grit-stone on the 

 farm ; — near the lime-stone veins of coal of the kan- 

 nel kind, pr parrot coal, make their appearance. 



Visited Mrs Macle.od at the castle of Dunvegan, 

 the lady of major Macleod. That lady said, yohn the 

 blind, an old man in Troternyfli parifh in this island, 

 used to repeat parts of the poems of Ofsian to her 

 and her family, fhe holding the translation in her 

 hand, and comparing it witii the original, wliich, in 

 her opinion, always surpafsed the translation in 

 beauty. Supped at the inn. An old man, of the 

 name of Ptlacleod, repeated the death of Dargo. By 

 the account given of it, this poem seemed to be near- 

 ly the same story of the Boar told by Clanranald's 

 bard. Those who understood the language were in 

 raptures with this poem. They said no translation 

 could convey any tolerable idea of its beauties, 

 which drew tears from the eves of some of the au- 



