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 excellencies might urge the wayfarer to drink luxuriously. Beautiful low ground annexed to the mountains above narrated, called Glenample, which anciently possessed by many tenants. Their Beasts of pasture of diﬀerent kind was in great multitudes at that time. The general custom they had conducting their husbandry aﬀairs, that their wives, in accompanying of their little ones, removed with their cattle to the shealings, which were a selected part in the hills, on which little houses build to shelter them, being a place of their abode for the period of six weeks in the summer. The founds of this small fabric exhibited to the view, as hitherto. The propriety of forming the idea of removing with their cattle to the shealings, tending to spare the pasture of the low ground during their time there; but the men continuing their habitation on the level, attending on the farms and other domestic afairs; the shealings detached from each other. The cattle was numerous, that sojourners seized with astonishment, overhearing the bleating of the sheep, and lowing of the black cattle, morning and evening, when they were feeding the young ones from their breasts.