686 REMARKS ON DOCTOR 



fluns, poultry, and the letter articles of huP;indry, the produce of 



the main land and the contiguous illands ; where, to mm up the 



ubitanti o: :i and country ; [man, 



the cpafter, and ihr .uild mutually -.\\d be 



vd, in the prodiuti ^d land. 



cxpencc to the public in railing and endowing each town, 

 it calculated at 20,000!. or 160,000!. for the w 

 take into the accoun: be purchaled, and the build- 



ings to be creeled with ftonc, lime and i d to 8 



reiioXnt clergymen, u 



bcr ol ;es, every dilintererted ienlible 



:oth in ti. : y ol' the plan, and the 



moderation 01 :es. 



is no U.T -ice, or room for jobbing. 



expenditure hath a va! 

 part " .me which on -a, will act through 



ages by . ' ..... 



hundred fold, the o. , , of its in* 



iiiuple, \,: , and popular (ketch, 



of colonizing the Highlands at the expence of 160,000!. with that 

 propoled by Dr. Anderlon :%: little or no ex|- um-nt. 



i peaks with great o of railing many tov.-ns or vil- 



lages, conlifting at the firlt fet out, of 1000 houies each ; to con- 

 nect \vhich towns or villages, he propoies five large cities to 1>^ 

 built upon the Hebride illes. The proportion of the villages to the 

 five cities cannot, agreeable to the doctor *s ideas, be luted 

 40 or 50, the expence of which and the citie*, i'uppofing the houlcs 

 to be built of ftonc, lime and llatc, with laih windows and other con- 

 veniencics in the modern itylc, could not be lefs than ; millions 

 fierling ; now as the doctor almoil entirelv cxtmprs ;; 

 from any part of this immenle linn, and as the perlons wh 

 happen to go thither, will be compoied of pennyleis, fpcctilative 

 jidventurer.s, yith othen poflefled of lome capital, which tlh 

 H'ilh to employ not upon building, but in h'ftici, . lc, it 



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fertile brain, hath an eye to an embaily t 



ciatev ,:ons, for half a million of his 



highneis's fubjects, and a Cum equal to 5 millions Hrkifli r>. 

 whereby to build and people the <; cities and 40 villages at 

 dale, and .and; and, as 



r the money lo advanced, the r: ige the laid 



^cities and 40 villages, till the whole lum fhould be piid with 

 intcreft. The doctor in order to facilitate th. of his com- 



might difplay in lively colours and a ftritt regard to truth, 

 the excellency of the climate, the nthneii of the foil, and the ex- 

 tent of the fields, natural; 1 with an 



the many large and fair illands of the . He 



might expatiate from one full moon to another, on the 

 Abundance of minerals and metals, the usuil 



the 



