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in or near this Portus Salutis ; where lobsters 

 are sometimes sold for bodies a piece ; but for 

 crabs, perewinkles, and various other shell-fish, 

 as cockles, and mussels, &c. the natives are not 

 nice to share such entertainments amongst stran- 

 gers ; meaning such as cruise all along their coast, 

 till the season of the year compels them off. 



Theoph. It's a pleasant part of a country, I 

 confess, though methinks it stands almost out 

 of the world. 



Am. Let it stand as it will stand, it stands 

 well enough, by reason it borders so near the 

 Highlands, 



Theoph. Why then it will look further off 

 from home. For these Highlands, to my think- 

 ing, but represent a part of the creation left un- 

 drest : As some great and magnificent fabrick is 

 erected, you know abundance of rubbish is left 

 to remove ; so I fancy those Highlands appear 

 to me, because wanting ornament, and destitute 

 of cultivation. 



Am. You shall have it on your own terms, as 

 void of form as the natives are indigent of mo- 

 rals and good manners. However, from these 

 eminent rocks we descry the ocean, and the ships 

 sometimes as they cruise upon the coast. But 

 now the air that was serene, is thickned, I fan- 

 cy, and struck with impressions of cold ; for the 

 wrack of clouds begiivto roll about, variously in* 



