Ossian Collection > Defence of the Scots Highlanders, in general; and some learned characters, in particular

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the weft coafts and iflands of North Britain
in any quantity. Their kail and cabbage
are only exceeded in delicacy by their tur-
nip, which for its flavour, and the finenefs
of its grain is prefented raw at genteel ta-
bles, with fruits, wild berries, with fine
dulce, flack, admirably well drefled by
way of defert. Potatoes are very plenty
through the whole highlands. A fmall
portion of lime, orfiielly fand, where cut,
or cafl: ware cannot be had for manure,
brings forward a plentiful crop, and of a
quality greatly fuperior to thofe that are
raifed on richer foils.
In the iflands and on the weft coafts of
Scotland^ great quantities of kelp are manu-
fadured by theinduftrious inhabitants, (thefe
are not the indolent favages of Mr. P. furely
not, he muft mark out their lurking places
of abode ;) and the profits arifing from
the kelp made by thefe induft^rious people,
are extremely advantageous to the pofleftbrs
of thefe coafts, whether proprietor or tackf-
men.
And