ell caught a cuddy.

The cuddy is a fish of which I know not the philosophical name. It is
not much bigger than a gudgeon, but is of great use in these Islands, as
it affords the lower people both food, and oil for their lamps. Cuddies
are so abundant, at sometimes of the year, that they are caught like
whitebait in the Thames, only by dipping a basket and drawing it back.

If it were always practicable to fish, these Islands could never be in
much danger from famine; but unhappily in the winter, when other
provision fails, the seas are commonly too rough for nets, or boats.

TALISKER IN SKY

From Ulinish, our next stage was to Talisker, the house of colonel
Macleod, an officer in the Dutch service, who, in this time of universal
peace, has for several years been permitted to be absent from his
regiment. Having been bred to physick, he is consequently a scholar, and
his lady, by accompanying him in his different places of residence, is
become skilful in several languages. Talisker is the place beyond all
that I have seen, from which the gay and the jovial seem utterly
excluded; and where the hermit might expect to grow old in meditation,
without possibility of disturbance or interruption. It is situated very
near the sea, but upon a coast where no vessel lands but when it is
driven by a tempest on the rocks. Towards the land are lofty hills
streaming with waterfalls. The garden is sheltered by firs or pines,
which grow there so prosperously, that some, which the present inhabitant
planted, are very high and thick.

At this place we very happily met Mr. Donald Maclean, a young gentleman,
the eldest son of the Laird of Col, heir to a very great extent of land,
and so desirous of improving his inheritance, that he spent a
considerable time among the farmers of Hertfordshire, and Hampshire, to
learn their practice. He worked with his own hands at the principal
operations of agriculture, that he might not deceive himself by a false
opinion of skill, which, if he should find it deficient at home, he had
no means of completing. If the world has agreed to praise the travels
and manual labours of the Czar of Muscovy, let Col have his share of the
like applause, in the proportion of his dominions to the empire of
Russia.

This young gentleman was sporting in the mountains of Sky, and when he
was weary with following his game, repaired for lodging to Talisker. At
night he missed one of his dogs, and when he