As writ verbatim, here it is,

SIR,

I THANK God, I am in good health and have got off as designed.——Remember me to all friends, and thank them for the trouble they have been at——I am, Sir, Your humble Servant,

James Thomson.


[CHAP. XII.]

Sundry dangers and hardships on the main shore. Meets with six men who relieve him. Almost starved. Goes to Lochaber. Meets with Lochiel. Gets off from Moidart.

Now, the men of war being out of sight,

On the eighth of July, at eight at night,

The laird of MacKinnon, John by name,