Notes on Burghead

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want of an Act of Parliament, the dues were really
but nominal. The town and harbour, however, con-
tinued to prosper under the care of its spirited and
enlightened proprietor, who died in the year 1842,
at an advanced period of life, much and justly re-
gretted as a benefactor to the north of Scotland, and
who had done more for this part of the country
than any person of his day and generation.
We cannot here resist the opportunity of alluding
briefly to the life and labours of the late Mr Young
of Burghead ; and when we consider that for a period
of upwards of half a century he was the foremost
man of progress in the north of Scotland, that he
devoted himself to the improvement of the country,
and when we see the marks he left in Moray-
shire and other northern counties, particularly
in the county of Sutherland, the extensive corre-
spondence he carried on till the close of his long
life with most men of standing in the north, his
hospitality and liberality, his kindness to strangers,
his desire to promote the interests of young men,
and to advance them in the world — his name and
memory well deserve a passing remark and memo-
rial, and to remain enshrined in the recollection of
all acquainted with his character and worth.
After the death of the late Mr Young, everything
at Burghead remained for some years much as he