674 REMARKS ON DOCTOR 



14 the mines carried on under the direction of Mr. Freebairn, fmc 



44 the year 1763, (viz. 11 years) the ore is or lend, much 



wi*h copper, which occafions expencc and trouble in the 



feparation : the veins rife to the furface, have been v. urked at 



41 intervals for ages, and probably in the time <> -us, 



niners." So very- oppofite, in cvt nc 



thefe writer* ; the one fabulous, the other authentic and in- 



'Ihele mines have been thoroughly wrought, and tha 



Jafl company, of whom Mr. Freebaim was the acting partner, were 



thereby thoroughly ruined. 



Our reporter, fpeaking of the behaviour of the Highland lairds 

 towards the people of the Highlands, whom he Hates at t. 

 500,000, fays that " Contumely is added to oppreflion, and the 

 <ople are cruelly inlulted and abufcd, inftead of being 



npathized with, and kindly fupportcd and < 



44 rilhed. The donor, in thr \amination before 



i.ittccon the fifhcries, being aflced by one of the northern 



IK-IS, 4t Whether he imagined that the proprietors in the 



rn coafts of .x-otland, behold, with indifference, 



44 the poverty of the lower orders of j . their eftates ? or, 



lether they do not rather nuike exertions to free them fi 

 44 that diibefs ful poverty which he defciibcd in his report?" lie 

 anhvered, 4t That he imagined that the proprietors of the wcftern 

 M oafts of Scotland in general, fliew a fpirit of lenity to their 

 4 ' tenants, and th; M p^ c under them, equal, at 



44 lead, to that di; ; n of any other part of 



44 Hritain that he is acquainted with." This Kranra:ion apj 

 t> have l)een only pro ttmttorc ; a mofl virulent in\ 

 the gentlemen of the Highlands, was afu m by 



the doctor to be printed with the icport, which . 

 -cr,'l\ fnpprtl' 



ng given a ipecimen of the do&or's dcfcriptive p^ 



confider him as an improver, a politician, and fi] 

 i i' . id, in a former publication, i iiency of 



public aid, and that with a liberal hand, for the imj-rovcii.ent of 

 the Highlands, by means of iiflieiics. inland commu . :-nd 



. iituatcd at convenient distances, upon a line of 

 extending 150 miles in length. 



M hcic proportions met with thr/ v.hich 



ly ftimul:- . :.s of 



illiberal difpolitions. 'oms, 



and the plan ioptcd by the I nth 1 



lorn : 

 ountry rtiembling the Highlands of Scotlaiu: 



, and \\i 

 converfing v. j well as 



* Fo 1 

 ii a&ualiy bcgur. upon d . Donegal. 



