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3 Buckers settled in a fishing town at   Bucky and near the river Spey, which is  a pretty large sea-town But among all  sea-towns in Scotland the fishers still retain  language quite different from the people in  country, and always they shot the letter H,  use O instead thereof, which no country- in Scotland do but themselves. There is corruption of speech in every country over all, and likewise they use different tones  ways of pronouncing words from others;  some in the south of Scotland can hardly  undersroodunderstood [sic] by those in the north, tho' both  to speak good English, and have a liberal  of education. But since learning is now easy to be obtained, ignorance and  of speech are greatly decreased.

In the county of Fire on the sea-coast, there a little town inhabited by few but fishers,  Buck harbour, because of sea buckies and  to be found so plenty on the rocks about  place. There is little mention made of town by historians to know its original  and antiquities, but in their own urges-ticket, which was partly perfect truth,  more of it by way of lampoon. This ticket dated the thirty-second day of the month  Julius Cæsar. Their coat of arms was two gripping each other over a scate's rumple. oath was, 'I wish that de de'il may k me an I binna an honest man to you an