one of the Western Isles of Scotland, lying about two leagues to the southward of Harries. It is about five miles in circumference; the soil is sandy, but, when manured with the alga marina, extremely fertile, producing an increase of 50 fold of barley; nay, one grain has been known to produce 14 ears when the season was remarkably favourable. The face of the island is extremely agreeable in summer, exhibiting a pleasing variety of corn fields and clover pasture. Here is a fresh-water lake called Lochbeinn, diversified with small islands, and abounding with eels, which the natives, by the help of lights, catch in the night-time, as they fall down a rivulet towards the sea in heaps twisted together. There are two chapels in this island dedicated to St Afanph and St Columbus; and near the former is a stone standing about 8 feet above the ground. At the east end of this island there is a strange reciprocation of the flux and reflux of the sea, and another no less remarkable upon the west side of the long island. The tides from the south-west run along northward; so that during the ordinary course of the tides the flood runs east in the frith where Bernera lies, and the ebb runs west; thus the sea ebbs and flows regularly for four days before, and as long after, the full and change of the moon; the spring-tides generally rising 14 feet perpendicular, and the others proportionably: but for four days before, and as many after, the quarter moons, there is a singular variation; at that time a foisterly moon making high water, the course of the tide being eastward, it begins to flow at half an hour after nine in the morning, and continues to flow till half an hour af-