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and sensible women, received us in the parlour,
while the room was being made ready. En-
quiring of the mother, if there was no place of
worship between Taymouth and Killin, for
we had seen no kirk, she told me there was a
missionary settled there, appointed by the
Society, with a salary of sixty pounds, and
some glebe, which he let. The Highlanders,
she said, were very desirous of religious in-
struction, and what few books they had were
religious ones : they never troubled themselves
about politics. Her own story, which we
afterwards learnt from the waiter, is a mournful
one. Her husband was an Englishman, by
name Kennedy, employed in managing Lord
Breadalbane's estates. His Lordship turned
him off from some suspicion (I apprehend an
unjust one) of ill conduct ; and this affected
him so much that he died of a broken heart
on the way to England. The widow being of
this country turned back, purchased a shop of
her brother which he was carrying on un-
successfully, and is going on with it well
herself: but she has lately lost one of her
daughters. She is still a handsome woman.
3Ionday, August 23. — 7 to Aberfeldy. The
road commands fine views of Lord Breadal-