i8o a 'Doyage io the Hebrides. April 25. 



A VOYAGE TO THE HEBRIDES. 



Continued from p. 217. 

 Isle of Herries, Roivdil. 

 July 19. Wind fair. After a pafsage of six hours 

 reached Rowdil, in the isle of Herries, by i 2 o'clock. 

 Visited captain Macleod of Herries's operations at 

 Portmore. This gentleman merits the fame of a se- 

 cond czar Peter. He has built a pier of 300 feet 

 long, and 22 wide. He is building a second, to in- 

 •close the harbour. He has built a large storehouse, 

 and over it a good inn, his present dwelling. He has for- 

 med gardens, walled round, of two or thtee acres, out of 

 rocks and mofs ; made a good road from the harbour 

 to a little town he is forming on the height, where 

 there is already built a good house two or three 

 stories high ; and a manufacturing house fox teaching 

 children the art of spinning. Many wheels for spin- 

 ning wool, are already provided, — a teacher of spinning 

 daily expected. One of the upper rooms full of boys 

 and girls, whom a schoolmaster was instructing in 

 the arts of reading and writing. Some of them had 

 made such proficiency in reading, that an Englifh 

 gentleman of the party said, few children at the schools 

 in England, read with more correctnefs or lefs accent. 

 There was, besides, a tolerable house lie had occupied 

 on his first coming to the island. Around these 

 houses were thirty br forty huts occupied by the peo- 

 ple, which he intends to deraolifli, and to give the 

 people better houses in better situations. He had 

 repaired a ruinous church at the expence of L. 300 



