Scotland/Scots > Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

7o A JOURNEY TO THE
ftill entertain a piper, vvhofe office was an-
ciently hereditary. Macrimmon was piper
to Machod, and Rankin to Maclean of Col.
The tunes of the bagpipe are traditional.
There has been in Sky, beyond all time of
memory, a college of pipers, under the di-
redfion of Macrimmon, which is not quite
extindl. There was another in Mull, fu-
perintended by Rankin, which expired
about fixteen years ago. To thefe colleges,
while the pipe retained its honour, the flu-
dents of mufick repaired for education.
I have had my dinner exhilarated by the
bagpipe, at Armidale, at Dunvegan, and
in Col.
The general converfation of the Iflanders
has nothing particular. I did not meet
with the inquifitivenefs of which I have
read, and fufpedl the judgment to have
been rafhly made. A flranger of curiofity
comes into a place where a flranger is fel-
dom