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 whose Description of the Western Isles was published the year after Sacheverell's book, gives the following acccountaccount [sic] of this expedition:

"One Smallet" was an ancestor of the great novelist, who in his Humphry Clinker artfully brings old Matthew Bramble to Tobermory so that he may celebrate the great deed of his forefather. According to his account "the divers found the hull of the vessel still entire, but so covered with sand that they could not make their way between decks." Mr. Froude mentions the loss of this great Spanish galleon, but did not know the name of the harbour. Sir Walter Scott, who visited Tobermory a century and a quarter after Sacheverell, said that, "the richness of the round steep green knolls, clothed with copse and glancing with cascades, and a pleasant peep at a small fresh-water loch embosomed among them—the view of the bay surrounded and guarded by the island of Colvay—the gliding of two or three vessels in the more distant sound—and the row of the gigantic Ardnamurchan mountains closing the scene to the north, almost justify his eulogium who in 1688 declared the Bay of Tobermory might equal any prospect in Italy." With one thing Sacheverell was not content, and that was the weather. "With the dog-days," he says, "the autumnal rains began, and for six weeks we had scarce a good day. The whole frame of nature seemed inhospitable, bleak, stormy, rainy, windy."