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HISTORY OF BUCK-HAVEN.

AMongſt ſeveral ancient old records, this Bucky is not mentioned. There was a ſet called Buccaneers, which was pirates, (that is to ſay, ſea-robbers) and after ſtrict ſearch after theſe ſea-robbers, they were diſperſed. What of them eſcaped Juſtice in the ſouthern climate, is laid to ſhelter at o near Berwick upon Tweed. After a ſmart bottle among themſelves, they divided, and it is ſaid, the party who gained this Bucky-battle fearing the Engliſh law to take place. they ſet northward, and took up their reſidence at Bucky-haven, ſo called, not only on account of the great quanties of buckies that is found in and about the place, but on account of the battle they had with their neighbours at Berwick, when they divided, which they called bucking one another, which is now named boxing or fighting. Another party of thoſe Buckers ſettled in a fiſhing town near Banff, called Bucky, near the river Spey, which is a large ſea-town. But among all the ſea-towns in Scotland the fithers ſtill retains a language quite different from the people in the country, and almoſt they ſhift the letter H, and riſes O inſtead thereof, wnich no courtry people in Scotland does but themſelves. There is a corruption af ſpeech in every country over all Britain, and likewiſe they uſe different tones and ways of pronouncing words from others; ever ſome in the ſouth of Scotland, can hardly be un-