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66 JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND
knowing the merits of the case, his appearance
would prepossess me in his favour. We are
in an apartment, not less than 26 feet by 20,
very neatly furnished.
Friday, August 27. — At tea last night,
and at breakfast this morning we had Findon
haddocks, which Mr Telford would not allow
us to taste at Dundee, nor till we reached
Stonehaven, lest this boasted dainty of Aber-
deen should be disparaged by a bad specimen.
The fish is very slightly salted, and as slightly
smoked by a peat fire, after which the sooner
they are eaten the better. They are said to
be in the market (for the most part) twelve
hours after they have been caught, and
longer than twenty four they ought not to
DC kept. They are broiled, or toasted, I
know not which ; and are as good as any
fish of little flavour can be when thus cured.
The haddocks of this coast are smaller than
those which are brought to London, or to
Dublin, and better ; but at the best it is a
poor fish, a little less insipid than cod.
15 to Aberdeen. We set out in one of
those mists which had a right to wet R.
and myself, as Englishmen, to the skin ; so
we were all packed in the inside, and the