MULL
As We Were To Catch The First Favourable Breath, We Spent The Night
Not Very Elegantly Nor Pleasantly In
The vessel, and were landed
next day at Tobor Morar, a port in Mull, which appears to an
unexperienced eye
Formed for the security of ships; for its mouth
is closed by a small island, which admits them through narrow
channels into a bason sufficiently capacious. They are indeed safe
from the sea, but there is a hollow between the mountains, through
which the wind issues from the land with very mischievous violence.
There was no danger while we were there, and we found several other
vessels at anchor; so that the port had a very commercial
appearance.
The young Laird of Col, who had determined not to let us lose his
company, while there was any difficulty remaining, came over with
us. His influence soon appeared; for he procured us horses, and
conducted us to the house of Doctor Maclean, where we found very
kind entertainment, and very pleasing conversation. Miss Maclean,
who was born, and had been bred at Glasgow, having removed with her
father to Mull, added to other qualifications, a great knowledge of
the Earse language, which she had not learned in her childhood, but
gained by study, and was the only interpreter of Earse poetry that
I could ever find.
The Isle of Mull is perhaps in extent the third of the Hebrides.
It is not broken by waters, nor shot into promontories, but is a
solid and compact mass, of breadth nearly equal to its length.
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