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AMongst several ancient records this Bucky is not mentioned: there was a set called Bucaneers, who were pirates, that is to say sea robbers, and af- ter a strick search for that set of sea robbers, they dis- persed; what of them escaped justice in the southren, climate, are said to have sheltered at or near Berwick upon Tweed. After a smart battle, among them- selves, they divided and ’tis said, the party who gain- ed this Bucky battle, fearing the English law to take place, set forward and took up their residence at this Buck-haven, so called, not only from the great quantity of buckies that are found in and about that place, but on account of the battle they had with their neighbours at Berwick when they divided which was then called bucking one another; but it is now named boxing or fighting. Another party of these Buckers, settled in another town, northward to Banff, called Bucky near the river Spey, which is a large sea town, but among all the sea towns in Scot- land, the fisher’s still retain a language, quite differ- ent from the people in the country, and they almost all miss the letter H, and use O instead thereof which no country people do in Scotland but them- selves. There is a corruption of speech, in every country over all Britain and likewise they use differ- ent tones and ways of pronouncing words from others, even some in the South of Scotland can hardly be understood by those in the North, though