6ai SHORT TOUR OF SCOTLAND. 



After f pending fomc time at Campbi Itown, on th 

 fubjecl of the fiflu ri- ng that place 



on the n of tiic 1 8th of , at which 



ot the inhabitants with 



their company, and by whom I was informed that a 

 number of fhipwreci grants had juil en 



the town, and v. g money to carry them 



back to Gri fhip had 



: leen 1. without her mainmait; which, 



at that feafon was an uncommon fi^ht. It imme- 

 ly occurred, that fome ufeful information might 

 be collected from thefe unhappy people, refpeclmg 

 the caufes of their emigration, and other particulars. 

 With this view I fent for fuch of them as were in 

 the neighbourhood, and 3 men immediately 

 peared. My friends being moftly in the magiftracy, 

 and 2 of them juftices of the peace, it was at rirlt 

 propofed to examine* thefe 3 men officially, upon their 

 affidavits, to which they readily agreed ; but i 

 at lad rcfolved, that the town-clerk mould only take 

 their fimple declaration, which was as follows : 



" At Campbeltown, the 1 8th day of September, 

 1784, 



<( In prefence of Dugald Campbell, efq. cham- 

 berlain of Cantire, and Ronald Campbell, efq. col- 

 lector of the cuftoms at Campbeltown, two of his 

 majefty's juftices of the peace for the county of Ar- 

 gyle, appeared George Smith, Simon Frazer, and 

 Alexander Calderj who being judicially examined, 

 declare, That upon the firft day of September cur- 

 rent, they failed from Greenock, on board of the 

 fhip of Greenock, com- 



mander, at which time there were on board about 



id that for many hours without intcrmilfion ; but the 



grcatft apprehend on s were from a lee-fliorc, uhich, in thcfcnar- 



is, is not eafily avoided. Having thus eci rhe ir> 



convcnicncies to navigation by this channel, I relolvcd to examine 



inks of Lochfine, relative to a fliorter paflnije, the reiult of 



h inquiry hath been fully fiatccl. 



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