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Rh Highlands, or wherever you please to be carried. For example, if you hire them to go to Blair of Atholl, Taymouth, or any other part, where you propose paying a visit of days, or weeks, you must either retain the horses, and pay so much each day for them; or send them back to Perth, and order them to come again for you; paying for the time they take in getting from you to Perth, and from Perth to you again; as I was obliged to do from Blair, and from Rannoch, besides other shorter distances.

If you wish to travel through the Highlands in as perfect security as is possible, from good horses and careful driver, you must apply to Mr. Millar, at the Salutation inn, for horses, and James Allen, his driver, to take care of you; for I verily believe he will drive you (and with perfect safety too), through roads that no other man can drive, without accident, unless he be as careful, and as skilful, as James was when he drove me. I think there are very few such drivers as Allen; and because he was so sober and so careful, I gave him half-a-crown a-day for himself, which he well deserved; for whilst he drove me (and I am sure for many a mile where my carriage went under his conduct, never carriage had before gone), I