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8. From Loch Broom to Cape Wrath, the 



nifh in fizc, though not in number, and the 

 coaft is lefs populous. It is a country little known, 

 , cut off, by llupcndous ridges of" mountains, 

 from any intercourfe with mankind, and is the kflft 

 produ&ive to individuals or the (late, in the Britiih 

 vioms. Lying, however, fo favourably for the 

 north-weft fifheries, and in the track of ihipping to 

 and from the weft coaft of England and Ireland. 

 the Baltic, a harbour towards Ca] h would 



prove a moft defirablc (belter amidll the ha/.irdoir, 

 navigation, and frequent hurricanes on that northern 

 fhore. The diftarvce from Loch Broom to this t 

 is nearly 50 miles ; the channel, hitherto prop 

 in fome meafure by the Long Ifland, now opens to 

 rhe main ocean, which rages from the north and 

 weft with inconceivable fury, and where the devot- 

 ed veifel ftruggles, often in vain, to gain fome * 

 or bay, amidft almoft uninhabited wilds, covered 

 with 



f the natives who poflcfs a boat and nets ; and fifh in order 

 to fell the capture to the bufes : theutmoft rhefe poor peo; 

 attain to, arc the boat and nets ; they are too indigent to become 

 !s, or of fait, to th 1 the public, as 



thcmfclves. Were magazines of fait cftahlift 

 thefe diflant parts ; was encouragement given to thcfe diflant Bri- 



!, by degrees, to r'urnifh them- 

 with the reqr.irircs for tifliing, they would: them- 



-,. by the cnurfeoflife they mufl apply the. 

 the bufles would be certain of finding a ready ir.aiket o! 

 cured; tlio natives taught indullry, which would be quickened by 

 the profits made by the commodity, which they might 



taken at their very door?, without t .-A tcnr 



; the prefent cafe, 

 hefehome captures would ftimulate the people to 



;'ve from their minds the 



(i never Icflen tlie number ot \voulfi 



... cfTi-ls ; 



becntfi- : double chance of freight, from th< 



of the rcli- rt ftock 



i cfcapc while the former are wind- 

 rom loch to loch. 



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