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 still entertain a piper, whose office was anciently hereditary. was piper to, and to  of.

The tunes of the bagpipe are traditional. There has been in, beyond all time of memory, a college of pipers, under the direction of , which is not quite extinct. There was another in, superintended by , which expired about sixteen years ago. To these colleges, while the pipe retained its honour, the students of musick repaired for education. I have had my dinner exhilarated by the bagpipe, at, at , and in.

The general conversation of the Islanders has nothing particular. I did not meet with the inquisitiveness of which I have read, and suspect the judgment to have been rashly made. A stranger of curiosity comes into a place where a stranger is sel-