

CANAL BETV INVERNESS 



mountains dip into the fea. From this pafs, called 

 the Ord of Caithnefs, the hills begin gradually 

 to recede, and here the country is level and very 

 improveable. 



The chief produce of this divifion is j;rain, cattle, 

 timber of various kinds, white marble an 

 (tone. The river Nefs is tin- Tare for 



falmon between the fea and Lochnefs. Ti 

 taken in ciuivcs by a focicty ( ' .: mono} 



who farm the river, at a i onfiderable rent annually, 

 to the dice of t totally 



excluded from the benefit of - cious i leav 



dircdlcd food. The waters of tl. ilill 



me ible. To the lifli peculiar to inland la! 



as falmon, here farmed alfo by monopolizers, are 

 added the various riches of the ocean, particularly a 

 fmall but well-flavoured fpecies of herrings, whicii 

 the inhabitants capture ac plcafure, for home i. 

 and ibmetimes for manure, being too fmall for 

 curing. This fpecies of ti;c herring, falmon, and 

 white fifh, abound upon the whole line of coaft we 

 have been describing; but though the gentlemen 

 of the north are both patriotic and great improvers, 

 the generality of the peafants are miferably poor and 

 wrr 



Were the propofed line of navigation opened to 

 the great weftern fifheries, and to ail the Hebride 

 Ifles, a new fpecies of traffic and commercial im< 

 rourfe would immediately arife; markets of reci- 

 procal benefit would enliven both fhores, and give 

 employment to all thofe who prefer ufcful induilry 

 to indigence and idlenefs, of whom there are many 

 thoufands in this very remote diftrict. 



: is it the Highlands only, that requires the aid 

 of a communication between the two leas. Due 

 cad from Invernefs, the Murray Firth waflies a 

 coaft cf 105 miles to Buchannds, the eaftern ex- 

 tremity of abcrdeenfbire. 



The 



