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WESTERN ISLANDS, &c. 343
and difcriminations will be compreffed and
conglobated into one grofs and general
idea.
To this dilatory notation muft be im-
puted the falfe relations of travellers, where
there is no imaginable motive to deceive.
They trufted to memory, what cannot be
trufted fafely but to the eye, and told by
guefs what a few hours before they had
known with certainty. Thus it was that
Wheeler and Spen defcribed with irrecon-
cilable contrariety things which they
furveyed together, and which both un-
doubtedly defigned to fhow as they faw
them.
When we had fatisfied our curiofity in
the cave, fo far as our penury of light per-
mitted us, we clambered again to our boats,
and proceeded along the coaft of Mull to a
headland, called jitun^ remarkable for the
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