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 216 hope," he wrote, "Jupiter Pluvius has not been so constant at Ampthill. I think he ought to be engraved at the top of every map of England." Happily in the young Laird of Col our travellers had the kindest of hosts. His house "new-built and neat" still stands; Grissipol, which they visited, is in ruins. It was not till the morning of Thursday, the 14th, that they were able to set sail. With a fair breeze they were soon carried over to Tobermory, or Mary's Well, a beautiful bay in the Isle of Mull.



No such fleet is, I imagine, ever to be seen there at the present day, for one steamer does the work of many small vessels. The beauty of this little haven has been long celebrated. Sacheverell, who visited it two hundred years ago, thus describes it:—

He had been sent there to fish for sunken treasure. Martin,