701 REMARKS ON DOCTOR 



know that I was born in one of thcfc iflands, and accuilomcd to 

 ig from my youth, aud iincc th.it have been n 

 .uid pilot for 44 yeara ; have had the charge oi 



text aod many raerchant-thips through t 



^ht3 were aboard, and never had 



mailer (ajr they found them wrong ; on the 

 of them, ai well as n ; iliein much', as the belt 



they ever law. I own, indeed, they have done prejudice to the 

 , to my k .( in that ulcd to l>c 



well c . and well ] i e out, are 



:ie, or enter before 



caufc maitcrs through the Highlands, to t </land 



and to Ireland, iail by \ ,;hts without taking a pilot. I' 



bdicvi icilon is not well acquainted with failing or fea 



charts, or he wo\ild not have fallen foul of ibrmanre. 



Strono'.v;-.y pilots have luftcrcd much by your draughts, as hath 

 the Orkney p: 



.out pilots, ami 

 are employed, the fliip-maiicrs telling that t! 



's draughts. I am a \vell-wiflier to all honed 

 men, and lir, : humble fervant." 



Another letter runs thus: " Good lir, reading in the news- 

 papers a violent attack made on you and your charts of the Weil 

 Highlands, I can fay it is a falle and cruel attack. I have heert 

 pilot of his majefty's (hips, and other refpeftable merchant Ihips 

 belonging to Liverpool, and e Hev,'hcre ; and, by depending on 

 your charts, through the < lands, and often throu. 



Weft Highlands, to and again, have been lucccfsful, and trull in 

 Almighty God to continue : ', as I get an houeft 



and very good livelihood by pilotting veflels." 



;et from Kir. . :ne Orkneys, is thus : 



44 Sir, I am extremely lorry to lee you lately attacked on lb:: 

 of your furvcys, and I think it \ery lurpiiiing, ti, num- 



ber of years liave elapfed, thefe neglt-cts you are charged wr 

 not found out iooner, where there has Ix/tr:; it courfe of 



,g and experienced :;11 a Ur. Am Id do 



it. It is a known fact in this country, that before your fur. 

 the weft of Britain and Ireland were publifhed, there were from 

 10 to i ; pilots employed in Stromnefs, by (hipping going to Liver- 

 pool and Ireland, and more needed, if they could: D had; 

 audfince that, no capable (hip-mailer, going to ri , takes 

 a pilot, that has your fur\ey. I have frequently heard lentible 

 mailers of (hips lay, none whonndcrftood a map, needed a pilot 

 where you furveveu, if he had your's. But I really think, Sir, 

 that Dr. Anderfon has imagined you in Abraham's bofom, and 

 that he did not expect an an(wer.' It is common for thofe em- 

 ployed aihc is, to fnd fault with others that have gone before o* 

 tbt fami plan (bo<we<ver right) tor^ :'.' merit, which al* 

 wayt procctdsfrom ambition^ avarice^ a nd mercenary ma 



4 Bolide* 



