Having Not Any Experience Of A Journey In Mull, We Had No Doubt Of
Reaching The Sea By Day-Light, And Therefore Had Not Left Dr.
Maclean's Very Early.
We travelled diligently enough, but found
the country, for road there was none, very difficult to pass.
We
were always struggling with some obstruction or other, and our
vexation was not balanced by any gratification of the eye or mind.
We were now long enough acquainted with hills and heath to have
lost the emotion that they once raised, whether pleasing or
painful, and had our mind employed only on our own fatigue. We
were however sure, under Col's protection, of escaping all real
evils. There was no house in Mull to which he could not introduce
us. He had intended to lodge us, for that night, with a gentleman
that lived upon the coast, but discovered on the way, that he then
lay in bed without hope of life.
We resolved not to embarrass a family, in a time of so much sorrow,
if any other expedient could he found; and as the Island of Ulva
was over-against us, it was determined that we should pass the
strait and have recourse to the Laird, who, like the other
gentlemen of the Islands, was known to Col. We expected to find a
ferry-boat, but when at last we came to the water, the boat was
gone.
We were now again at a stop. It was the sixteenth of October, a
time when it is not convenient to sleep in the Hebrides without a
cover, and there was no house within our reach, but that which we
had already declined.
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