OF THE MURRAY IIRTIL 491 



coa/l ; the Dutch arc in the conftant pra-lice of 

 ig on thcfc banks. 



leficicncy <v '-xnind ports on the 



COaft of Scotland, from the rirth > that of 



acknov on the 



Iburgh, wo icr it fuch a 



port as is defined, an jlc to the v, 



going t >r north about. 



.: a little the prcfcnt 



harbo vhich tl -f accefs, 



>pofrd to extend 

 i of that roclc, and to build 



an in- i the fouth, at a greater diftance 



from the other pier than ti reby the 



harbour will be confiderably enlarged in fizc, and an 

 increafe of rv feel water will be got in that 



part of it, and there will then be ; ntrance and 



r,g-tides, 



although on the north channel there will not be more 

 than i v.hich arifcs from the fouth chan- 



nel being of a fandy bo nd opening out to 



the bay ; but the north is on rock, and runs clofe by 

 the coaft to Kinnaird's head point. The diftancc 

 from the Fllie rock to the rock called the Inch, on 

 which it is alfo propofed to build a break to the fea, 

 is a channel of about 20 or J s width, \\ith 19 



H it at high dreams, and is theentrancc 

 by the north channel to the harbot: the new 



pier (hall be built. For a further explanation, re- 

 ference is i. -with producer, 

 which it appears that there irrthe propofed 

 addition to the harbour, confiderably upwar 

 feet v fprinrvtides, aivi fro:r .: or- 

 dinary ebb-tides, the flow < cs being here 

 from 5 to 8 r on the 

 north, with the break on the Inch . 

 would be of *e in re 

 bour fecure, and Ihch ring v ider it in Ih 

 weather ; ?ncl indeed the harbour never can be vcif 

 fafe from the roll of the fca with a north-call wind, 



without 



