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limeltonc. The rivers and frefii \vater lakes com- 

 municating with Loch Broom, abound in 1'almon, 

 har. The fhores are populous, but the 

 people arc ilifcontented, and ftrongly difpoled to 

 emigrate. On thetc accounts, Loch Broom appears 

 to be a proper itation for a town or village, and Hill 

 more fo w ronfider it in a commerri.il light. 



This lake is not only the greatelt rcfort of her- 

 rings in Britain (the Shetland ifles cxcepted) but 

 the rilh have the reputation of being the richetl, and 

 mofl: delicious of any that have been taken in the 



:lern feas *. Loch Broom hath the: the 



lions, frames for looking-glafles, pictures, Sec. that they would 

 employ the eye the longeit day, and yet find Something to adn 

 The marble quarry that this precious work not 



above 200 yards from the mill that does all thcie wonders ; and 

 though it is rot variegated like the Italian, 1 am told it is full as 

 durable, and bears as fine a poliih as any brought from Italy. 

 Though the (lone in this quarry fomctimes might weigh fcvcral 

 ton, yet the method the contriver ha- ulcd to lift them, <'. 

 them out, and convey them to the mill, without any other 

 manual opei ation, adds ftill more to the lurpt ize. 1 am informed 

 this ingenious gentleman fends yearly fcveral (hip-loads to i- 

 land. Se\eial, I am informed, have been to examine this artful 

 wonder, (for it is open to all) but I cannot hear that any om 

 attempted to imitate the machinery. It is perpetually at work, 

 like a (hip at fea, by night as well as by day, and requires little 

 attendance. 



* From Orfordnefs, lays Sir William Monfon, the herrings di- 

 re*^ their courfc to the North Foreland in Kent, where they fur- 

 nifh both the Englifli and French fhores with fo many as are : 

 by both nation?, though they be both (hotten, and of the 

 kind. 



An eafterly wind carries them the length of our channel, till 

 they arrive at the Land's Knd in Cornwall ; from thence they di- 

 vi(ie themfelves like a fleet nf Ihips that fhould be directed by a ge- 

 neral. Somcgothrou . orge's channel, betwixt Em. 

 and Ireland : :ward of Ireland, till they arrive 



at the iflands of Hebrides, the place of rendezvous ; and we may 

 fuppofe they are at home, by the fircngth and goodnefs they find 

 in that place ; for though they run the length of our channel 

 kan and fick, yet as foon as they repair to thofc iflands, they be- 

 come the larged, the faireO, and the bed herrings in the world ; 

 and here they are taken in loughs and harbours, as I have laid, and 

 valued at 403. ^ ic la ft above others. 



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