mons, and bore arms under his command.

He had then, for some time, resided with the young ladies in Inch
Kenneth, where he lives not only with plenty, but with elegance, having
conveyed to his cottage a collection of books, and what else is necessary
to make his hours pleasant.

When we landed, we were met by Sir Allan and the Ladies, accompanied by
Miss Macquarry, who had passed some time with them, and now returned to
Ulva with her father.

We all walked together to the mansion, where we found one cottage for Sir
Allan, and I think two more for the domesticks and the offices. We
entered, and wanted little that palaces afford. Our room was neatly
floored, and well lighted; and our dinner, which was dressed in one of
the other huts, was plentiful and delicate.

In the afternoon Sir Allan reminded us, that the day was Sunday, which he
never suffered to pass without some religious distinction, and invited us
to partake in his acts of domestick worship; which I hope neither Mr.
Boswell nor myself will be suspected of a disposition to refuse. The
elder of the Ladies read the English service.

Inch Kenneth was once a seminary of ecclesiasticks, subordinate, I
suppose, to Icolmkill. Sir Allan had a mind to trace the foundations of
the college, but neither I nor Mr. Boswell, who bends a keener eye on
vacancy, were able to perceive them.

Our attention, however, was sufficiently engaged by a venerable chapel,
which stands yet entire, except that the roof is gone. It is about sixty
feet in length, and thirty in breadth. On one side of the altar is a bas
relief of the blessed Virgin, and by it lies a little bell; which, though
cracked, and without a clapper, has remained there for ages, guarded only
by the venerableness of the place. The ground round the chapel is
covered with gravestones of Chiefs and ladies; and still continues to be
a place of sepulture.

Inch Kenneth is a proper prelude to Icolmkill. It was not without some
mournful emotion that we contemplated the ruins of religious structures
and the monuments of the dead.

On the next day we took a more distinct view of the place, and went with
the boat to see oysters in the bed, out of which the boatmen forced up as
many as were wanted. Even Inch Kenneth has a subordinate Island, named
Sandiland, I suppose in contempt, where we landed, and found a rock, with
a surface of perhaps four acres, of which one is naked stone, another
spread with sand and shell