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A Tour Through the Highlands of Scotland, and the Hebride Isles, in 1786
A Tour Through the Highlands of Scotland and the Hebride Isles in 1786 Author:John Knox General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1787 Original Publisher: J. Walten Subjects: Scotland Hebride Isles History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / General Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos... more » or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CRUISES AND JOURNIES ALONG THE COAST OF THE MAIN LAND, AND AMONG THE HEBRIDE ISLANDS, BETWEEN OBAN AND CAPE WRATH. DESCRIPTION OF ARGYLESHIRE. RGYLESHIRE, from whence I took LjL my departure, extends one hundred and fourteen miles in length, from the Mull of Cantire, on the fouth, to the Point of Ardnamurchan, on the north, where it joins the mire of Invernefs. Its medium breadth is from thirty to forty miles, except the long peninfula of Cantire, which is only from eight to nine miles. The number of inhabited iflands which compofe a part of this mire, amount, as before flated, to thirty- nine, of which Mull, Hay, and Jura, are the principal. This very extenfive county is inhabited chiefly by the Campbells, Macleans, Mac- neils, Macdonalds; and, of thefe, the Campbells are the mofl numerous. During the laftlaft war, Argylefhire raifed a complete regiment of Fencibles, befides a confiderable number who enlifted in the marching regiments. As this is properly a maritime fifhing county, wafhed on one fide by the Atlantic, and on the other fide by the Firth of Clyde and Loch-Fine, the number of feamen drawn from thence to the Royal Navy muft have been very great. Above nine hundred men enlifted or were prefled into the fervice in different parts of the world, all of whom were natives of Campbeltown and its neighbourhood, and had been brought up in the fifhing bufmefs carried on by the herring buffes from that port. When the projected canal fhall ...« less