acdonald acted with great
moderation. He upbraided Hugh, both with disloyalty and ingratitude; but
told the rest, that he considered them as men deluded and misinformed.
Hugh was sworn to fidelity, and dismissed with his companions; but he was
not generous enough to be reclaimed by lenity; and finding no longer any
countenance among the gentlemen, endeavoured to execute the same design
by meaner hands. In this practice he was detected, taken to Macdonald's
castle, and imprisoned in the dungeon. When he was hungry, they let down
a plentiful meal of salted meat; and when, after his repast, he called
for drink, conveyed to him a covered cup, which, when he lifted the lid,
he found empty. From that time they visited him no more, but left him to
perish in solitude and darkness.

We were then told of a cavern by the sea-side, remarkable for the
powerful reverberation of sounds. After dinner we took a boat, to
explore this curious cavity. The boatmen, who seemed to be of a rank
above that of common drudges, inquired who the strangers were, and being
told we came one from Scotland, and the other from England, asked if the
Englishman could recount a long genealogy. What answer was given them,
the conversation being in Erse, I was not much inclined to examine.

They expected no good event of the voyage; for one of them declared that
he heard the cry of an English ghost. This omen I was not told till
after our return, and therefore cannot claim the dignity of despising it.

The sea was smooth. We never left the shore, and came without any
disaster to the cavern, which we found rugged and misshapen, about one
hundred and eighty feet long, thirty wide in the broadest part, and in
the loftiest, as we guessed, about thirty high. It was now dry, but at
high water the sea rises in it near six feet. Here I saw what I had
never seen before, limpets and mussels in their natural state. But, as a
new testimony to the veracity of common fame, here was no echo to be
heard.

We then walked through a natural arch in the rock, which might have
pleased us by its novelty, had the stones, which incumbered our feet,
given us leisure to consider it. We were shown the gummy seed of the
kelp, that fastens itself to a stone, from which it grows into a strong
stalk.

In our return, we found a little boy upon the point of rock, catching
with his angle, a supper for the family. We rowed up to him, and
borrowed his rod, with which Mr. Bosw