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flrih called Dungfbay-head, but better known bf 

 the name of johnny Groat's, from a : jf the 



nin - who formerly reft Jed here, and to 



whom the villas <xwithttand- 



betwccn ihe currents and 



contrary titles at this place, there is no ferrying v< 

 fel to the Orkneys, br .c fize of a fmall open 



bo.r om this northern extremity of 



our ifla.id is, by the mortcft poft roads, to 



MJ 



Edinburgh, 273 



Glafgow, 280 



iloway, 



Ijondon, 



..id's End, 



the agronomical length of the illand, in a direct 

 line, does not much exceed 600 mi 



r travelling northward to Cape Wrath, and 

 from thence eaftrward to Dungfbay-head, we now 

 pafs that famous cape, and t >uthern courfe 



along the coaft of the Britifh lea*, whit ncs 



a line of 80 miles in length, without a harbour, and 

 fcarccly a town that merits notice. It hath all the ad- 

 vantages of the fifherics which have fo often been 

 fcribcd, though in a lefs degree than 

 weftern coaft. It is commodioufly foliated for com- 

 merce, and the peopl ly induftrir 

 The only place that hath the appearance of a port, 

 is " .1 fmall, but antient borough town, fin 

 cd at the mouth of the river \Vulv, which forn 



tide 



* ''vied in foreign mapi, the GYnw*. great 



. as it barely touches that empire ; .fhw 



the whole caftern (horc of < i'rntland finh 



\eitherhathitanyclaim 10 the appcl- 

 .on of rrt, whkh implitt a prat bodrof 

 ire fepiratton of its parts by hnci, as me Atlantic, and the Pa- 

 cifie ocean. A ft a being a inuller col!efttoci of wafer, confined 

 hetrvtn brds ; but, comiminicarinr with the ocean, juitities the 

 deviation whkh I have made from the ufual cuftom, reij 

 of what ought properly to be called, 71* Brit^b $<j. 



