Ossian Collection > Journey to the western islands of Scotland

40 A JOURNEY TO THE
rit, Inflead of laying him in the Red-fea,
I would condemn him to refide in the
Buller of Buchan.
But terrour without daqger is only one
of the fports of fancy, a voluntary agitar
tion of the mind that is permitted no longer
than it pleafes. We were foon at leifure
to examine the place with minute in-
fpedion, and found many cavities which,
as the watermen told us*, went backward
to a depth which they had aever explored.
Their extent we had not time to try; they
are faid to ferve different purpofes. Ladie?
come hither fometimes in the fummer with
collations, and fmugglers make them ftore-
houfes for clandeftine merchandife. It
is hardly to be doubted but the pirates
of ancient times often ufed them as maga-
zines of arms, or repofitories of plunder,
To the little veffels ufed by the northern
?owers, fte Buller may have ferved as 3^
flicker