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h, and in one place a quarter of a mile 

 only in breadth, where s ami ! 



cattle arc fwam over from S <>nti- 



; for fale. The horfes are pufhcci oil' a rock into 

 t'hcfea, and conduced over, 4 at ic, by a little 



boat and two men, havi 

 fide, held with 1 lack cat 



in dro\ n 6 to 10 or 12 at a t: 



with ropes fattened from the horn of o: rail, 



and fo to the no. ing fallened to the 



pilot boat. Through tliis > i>, the herrings, 



rtain winds, penetrate to the ibuth, when of 

 courle every opening is filled. Spring tides run 

 here at the rate of 7 miles an hour, and the channel 

 abounds in fafe bays, ily ornamented with the 



caftles or feats of the proprietors of thefe fhores. 

 the north end of the channel, we enter Rofs- 

 Ihire, pofiefled chiefly by the Mack and 



roes. The coaft, after pafiing the : 



is one Continued line of bays and loch 

 Loch Duich, Loch Carran, Loch Kifu T: , Lx^cli 

 ; ,iik, Appiecroib hay, where the main 

 of the channel again opens to view, ha\ 

 tinent on the eaft, Sky on the fouth, i iland 



on the weft, and the main ocean on the north. It 

 contains a furface, of 55 miles in length, by 40 upon 



dium in width, unincumbered with i 

 or (hallows, abounding in fifhing banks, its Jl 

 on every fide deeply indented with , e of 



them extending above 10 miles within land, a; 

 of them the occafional refort of herrings in bound- 

 lefs numbers, and of ft quality; befides white 



fifli, flat fifh, falmon, trout, and ILell lifli. 

 thefe favourable circumilaiu es, is to be added the 

 contiguity of thefe inhabitants to the gn !i-fea 



white fiiheries, from which murh wealth may b'- 

 alized, were the people accommodated with f 1 

 provifions, and fifhing mattrin 



Such are the local and mai i : vantages of this 



nor; 



