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302 MINERALOGICAL’ REMARKS. quite oppofite to mine; withing to ftop when I wifhed to go on, and'to turn to the right when I wanted to go to the left: they carricd their obflinacy fo far as to endanger the waggon, but not my neck, which I thought proper to fecure by walking on the outfide of it. I never wifh to travel poft again with horned cattle. Half way, with fome difficulty, I exchanged my oxen for horfes. A large party of recruits were halting here for the night; they were fo {triGly watched that they were obliged to —~—~ im the ftreet before the door of a barn, which was to be their fhelter for the night. Fenquired of a man, whofe attention they had likewife attracted, what they ‘were.—Q, Sir, faid he, you /ee they are voluntcers.—It immediately brought'to my: recollection a circumftance' which happened a few years ago in the Highlands of Scotland, where a great Highland chief thought proper to raife a regiment, and to complete it, I imagine, the quicker, fent his peafants, nolens volens, as foldiers. Some of thefe, in whofe breafts the martial Ípirit was extind, and who had but little ambition for military glory, he fent in a catt, bound or hand-cuffed.— Well, faid a traveller who met them, what’s all this ; what are you doing there my lads ?—O, Sir, replied they, "we are only his’ Grace’s volunteers. “This'was Saturday, and the inn, or äle-houfe, was kept, as they ‚often are’in this part of the country, by a Jew. I walked in, and found it, as I expected, a filthy place. I called for fomething, it was brought me by a Chriftian girl, and when I wanted .to.pay :the miftrefs 50
