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or L. 400, which was burnt down by accident al- 

 most as soon as finiftied. He has built a small stout 

 Ijark from fifteen to tv/entj tons burthen, and is 

 building a flat bottomed lighter for transporting flaelly 

 sand from a neighbouring island, for improving th? 

 ground. All his artizans and work people 'are na- 

 tives of the island of Harries. He has made a car- 

 riage road from Portmore harbour several miles int& 

 the island towards the wesiern side of it, which is 

 most fertile ; nothing can exceed the ruggednefs of the 

 Spot he has, on account of the harbour, been obliged 

 to make the seat of his improvements. All appears 

 stony hJIls, and mountains of granite ; neverthelefs, 

 like the other mountains in the Hebrides, they con- 

 tain more good pasture than they appear to Ao. 

 Being himself far advanced in life, and rather infirm, 

 he is afs^isted in his operations by a nephew of his 

 own. Shewed us a modeiby which he intended to 

 construct a mill for grinding cofn, and for fulling 

 cloth. Also seme Herries Vv'ool, of a very soft and 

 fine quality. In the church is a tomb of one of the 

 ancestors of colonel i^.Iaclfod of Macleod, dated 152^, 

 not worth notice but for its rude sculpture of the 

 figure of the galleys u«ed by the chiefs of the islands 

 in those days and long afterwards. It is called a 

 long fader or long Ikip. Made a rough iketch of it. 

 It rises high at stem and stern, has a rudder, one 

 mast, a lug sail, and its sides pierced with holes for 

 seventeen oars of a side ; seems remarkably well 

 •adapted for the navigation of those seas. 



Capt?.in Macleod has also sounded the banlis aod 

 coast between Herries and St KiLia, whicli lies soiae 



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