Mr. Mills s Ubjervattons on 
whofe angles were worn off, and they were become round and 
fmooth. On the N.W. fide, the cliff has lately given way ; a 
large portion of it has fallen into the fea, and a ftill further 
part appears likely to follow it. 
On the ifland are two fprings of excellent frefh water. 
There were three houfes (July 5, 1 7 3 8 uninhabited; and 
barley, oats, flax, and potatoes, growing near the center, and 
good grafs in feveral fpots. When the crops are ripe, la- 
bourers are fent to gather them in ; after which, thirty head 
of cattle are fent to winter in the ifland, which, w: th a foli- 
tary herdfman to attend them, continue till feed-time the 
en filing fpring. 
In attempting to return to Hay, after having got within 
three miles of the N.W. part mf Coloniay, an heavy gale of 
wind came on, which obliged us to bear away, and take flhel- 
ter in the Bull Sound. The weather continuing ftormy, we 
landed, and walked to Fidden, the houfe of Lieut. Col. 
Campbell, of the Plymouth diviiion of Marines, who re- 
ceived us with the utmoft cordiality, and hofpitably enter- 
tained us for five days, which we were detained by an adverfe 
wind and fe verity of weather. Availing ourfelves of this de- 
lay, and of Col. Campbell’s polite offer to be cur guide, we 
fet out on foot with him and Lieut. Stewart, to view the 
fleam, of coal on the fouth fide of Loch Leven. After palling 
fome moory ground, and continuing our route to the northward 
for an hour and an half, we came to a fpot where the rock which 
puts up to the day is a laminated micaceous ftone ot the gneiis 
kind (Kir wan, p. 102.); and in another half hour, near a 
fmail town on the S.W. fide of Loch Lyne, we were fhewn a 
quarry where the gneifs ranges N.E. and S.W. and has a flight 
hade to the S.E. It is in ribs from two to twelve inches thick, 
and 
