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WESTERN ISLANDS, &c. 501
which was indited with juridical forma-
lity, but was never made valid by regular
fubfcription.
If the inhabitants of Col have nothing
to give, it is not that they are opprefled
by their landlord : their leafes feem to be
very profitable. One farmer, who pays
only feven pounds a year, has maintained
feven daughters and three fons, of whom
the eldeft is educated at Aberdeen for the
miniftry ; and now, at every vacationj
opens a fchool in Col.
Life is here, in fome refpecls, improved
beyond the condition of fome other Iflands,
In Sky what is wanted can only be bought,
as the arrival of fome wandering pedlar may
afford an opportunity ; but in Col there is
a (landing fhop, and in Midi there are two.
A fhop in the Iflands, as in other places of
little frequentation, is a repofitory of every-
thing requifite for common ufe. Mr.
^ofweir^