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3 those Buckers settled in a fishing town at Banff, called Bucky and near the river Spey, which is now a pretty large sea-port town. But among all the sea-towns in Scotland the fishers still retain a language quite different from the people in the country, and they always shift the letter H and use O instead thereof which no country- people in Scotland do but themselves. There is a corruption of speach in every country aver all Britain, and likewise they use different tones and ways of pronouncing words from others; even some in the south of Scot and can hardly be understood by those in the north, though both pretend to speak good English, and have a liberal parf of education. But since learning is now so easy to be obtained, ignorance and corruption of speach are greatly decreased.

In the county of Fife, on the sea coust, there stands a little town, inhabited by few but fishers, called Buck Harbour, because of sea buckies and shells to be found so plenty on the rocks about that place. There is little mention mage of this place by historians, to know its original, extracion and antiquities, but in their own hurges ticket which was partly parfect truth, but more of it by way of lampoon. This ticket was latest the thirty second day of the month of Julius Cæsar, Their Coat of Arms were two hands ripping each other over a scale's rumple. Their oath was, I wish that de de'il may tak me an binna an honest man to you an