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 THE H I S T O R Y OF B U C K- H A V E N.

AMONGST feveral ancient records this Bucky is not mentioned: there was a fet called Buckaneers, who were pirates, that is to fay fea robbers, and af- ter a ftrict fearch fo rthat fet of fea robbers, they dif- perfed; what of them efcaped juftice in the fouthern climate, are faid to have fheltered at or near Berwick upon Tweed After a fmart battle, among them- felves, they divided, and it is faid, the party who gained this Bucky-battle, feared the Englifh law to take place, fet forward and took up their refidence at this Bucky haven, fo called, not only from the great quantity of buckles 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 ramed boxing or fighting. Another party of theft Buckers fettled in another town northwards to Banff called Bucky, near the river Spey, which is large fea-town; but among all the fea towns in Scot land, the fifhers ftill retain a language quite differ- ent from he people in the country, and they almoft all mifs the letter d, and ufe O inftead thereo which no country people do in Scotland but then felves. There is a corruption of fpeech in ever county over all Britain and likewife they ufe differ- ent terms and ways of pronouncing words from others, even fome in the fouth of Scotland on hardly be underftood by thofe in the north, though