Ossian Collection > Journey to the western islands of Scotland

WESTERN ISLANDS, &c. 377
From Glafgow we direded our courfe to
Auchinkck^ an eftate devolved, through a
long feries of ancellors, to Mr. BofweW^
father, the prefent pofleflbr. In our way
we found feveral places remarkable enough
in themfelves, but already defcribed by
thofe who viewed them at more leifure, or
with much more ikill ; and Hopped two days
at Mr. CampheU\^ a gentleman married to
Mr. Bofwellh filter,
Atichinkch which fignifies a Jlony fields
feems not now to have any particular clahn
to its denomination. It is a di(lri£t gene-
rally level, and fufficiently fertile, but like
all the Weft em fide oi Scotland, incommoded
by very frequent rain. It was, with the reft
of the country, generally naked, till the
prefent poffeflbr finding, by the growth of
fome ftately trees near his old caftle, that
the ground was favourable enough to tim-
ber, adorned it very diligently with annual
plantations,
Lord