a coffin on a bye table. Mr. Green, the master of the house, being an extensive farmer, and in easy circumstances, had been many years married without any children. At length, when above forty years old, Mrs. Green brought forth a fine boy, which became the darling of the whole house. In the evenings, when the business of the day was over, the servants, sitting round the fire, generally strove who should have the child most frequently on their knee, to dandle, sing to it, and amuse it; and it no doubt afforded the parents much plasure to see their child thus beloved, and caressed, and so early in life both giving and receiving pleasure. Having amused themselves with the child in this manner, one of the servants was handing it, one evening, to another on the opposite side of the fire, who had asked him, and had reached out his arms to receive the child. While in this attitude they were tickling it about the neck, to make it laugh, the child being stout and lively, and about a year old, gave, when going from the one servant's arms to the other, a spring, and leaped into a cauldron full of wort that happened to be boiling on the fire. Neither having leisure nor inclination to visit the other Western Islands, though some of them are well worth seeing, I took ship, and having the island of Tirie, Iona, or Icolmkill, and Mull, on the right, and Rum, with its lofty mountains, on the left, I sailed for Fort William, where, after a pleasant voyage, the continent, mountains, islands, &c. appearing in a variety of attitudes as the ship skimmed along, we arrived in safety. Finding the fort here neither so regular, nor so extensive, as Fort George, nor seemingly of any use, except as barracks for soldiers, I bent my course towards Inverary. After a tedious and wearisome journey of more than twenty miles, the greater part of which lay over two mountains, I reached, at length, exhausted and in a melancholy mood, the inn called the King's House, situated on the side of a rapid river, issuing out of the dreary and dreadful pass of Glencoe. Here provisions were as scarce and poor as at the general's hut on Lochness; with the important difference, that, if there was any cause of disgust, as there probably was, I fortunately did not perceive it. It is a miserable and dirty hut; though the landlord has this, with some pasture land, rent free, besides 101. per annum from government. However, I slept soundly, and early in the morning, well refreshed, and in good spirits, proceeded through Glencoe, which is ten miles in length, and whose horrors have often been described, to a small but not uncomfortable inn at the ferry of Ballyhulish. Here, an isolated hill, beautifully rising in a conical form, and verdant to the top, with the waters of Loch Lynn, which on one side wash its base, form a pleasing contrast with the gloomy precipices of Glencoe, and the savage rudeness of the mountains with which it is environed. By Appin, Aird, Ardnamurknage, Duustaffnage, and Dunolly, gentlemen's seats distinguished; some of them by the rude magnificence and frowning defiance of former times; and others, by the elegance and convenience of modern improvement, I arrived at Oban. This flourishing village is situated on the bay of Oban in the sound of Mull, which bay is of a semicircular form, from twelve to fourteen fathoms deep, and large enough to contain above five hundred vessels. It has It has every where good anchorage, and is defended from the fury of the winds by the island of Mull and Kerrera. The village is rapidly extending itself round the edges of the bay. The houses and gardens, rising above one another on the acclivities that bound the bay, exhibit a picturesque and pleasing appearance. When the custom-house, in 1766, was transferred from Fort William to Oban, it consisted only of three or four houses or huts. At present, its population amounts to near seven hundred souls. It has several flourishing manufactures; twenty sloops employed in the fishing and coasting trade; and a ship of three hundred tons in the Baltic trade such are the effects of natural advantages seized and improved by wise economy. An English traveller, equally patriotic and intelligent, and particularly conversant with naval affairs, the late Mr. T.Newte, of Tiverton, recommends Oban, I think by considerations that could not but have weight if they were attended to, as one of the happiest situations in Great Britain for the erection of a royal dock yard and arsenal. Having staid all night at Oban, where I met with some very well informed people, I pursued my route to Bunawe, on the lake of that name, where the Furness company have a house and place for making charcoal; and in the neighbourhood of this place an iron work. Here I rested, and passed the night in a small inn, or alehouse, that formed a perfect contrast with the king's house; a blessing for which travellers are indebted no doubt to the Furness company. I went on from Bunawe to Dalmally, a large and straggling village, pleasantly situated on a large river, which descending from the |