xviii CONTENTS. 



PACK. 



View of the Agriculture of the Central Highlands and Islands " The Old 

 Statistical Account Rev. James Headrick John Leyden James Macdonald 

 Nicholas Carlisle Dr. John Macculloch Lord Teignmouth Professor 

 Macgillivray The New Statistical Account Sir John Macneill Sherift" 

 Nicolson Casual visitors The Crofters Commission Visit of the King and 

 Queen to Stornoway 497 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Ecclesiology of the Outer Isles Religion Care of the poor Education 

 Trade and commerce The fishing industry Stornoway shipping Privateers 

 n the Minch Illicit distilling The mails Archaic criminal procedure 

 Stornoway at the beginning of the nineteenth century Celtic feudalism 

 The classes and the masses The tacksmen The system of agriculture 

 The introduction of the potato Kelp and its vicissitudes Voluntary emigra- 

 tion Compulsory emigration The present attitude towards emigration 

 Statistics of population The Land Question Conclusion 517 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Notes on the Outer Hebrides: Geology Physical Features Botany- 

 Vertebrate Animals Birds Fishes 557 



APPENDICES. 



Appendix. COPIES OF MSS. 



A The Isles of Scotland (1595) 583 



B Proposed invasion of Lewis (1602) ... 584 



C The Lewis fisheries (undated James I.) 585 



D Stornoway's charter of incorporation (1629) 586 



E The Lewis fisheries (1629), &c 589 



F Description of Lewis by Captain Dymes (1630) 591 



G Fishing colonies in the Hebrides (1632) 595 



H Papers relating to the "Forty-five" 595 



I Letters, etc., from Captain Barlow, an Officer stationed in the 



Long Island (1753) 598 



