Ossian Collection > Journey to the western islands of Scotland

300 A JOURNEY TO THE
in our paflage to A/w//, the company of a
x^oman and her child, who had exhaufted
the charity of Col. The arrival of a beg-
gar on an Ifland is accounted a fmlflrous
event. Every body confiders that he fhall
have the lefs for what he gives away.
Their alms, I believe, is generally oat-
meal. ^
Near to Col is another Ifland called TiV-
eye^ eminent for its fertility. Though it
has but half the extent of Rum, it is fo well
peopled, that there have appeared, not long
ago, nine hundred and fourteen at a fune-
ral. The plenty of this Ifland enticed
beggars to it, who feemed fo burdenfome to
the inhabitants, that a formal compact was
drawn up, by which they obliged them-
felves to grant no more relief to cafual
wanderers, becaufe they had among them
an indigent woman of high birth, whom
they confidered as entitled to all that they
could fpare, I have read the ftipulation,
which