—Northern routes oontinued.i— The two new, or supernumerary labourers,

. when, and where, employed.— Invencsa proceeds to the 8di December, better
$ian the last, but still Iktk enough *-Those from Orkney and Caithness, up
to the JS3d very sobeb-^Another question asked— Some Jkuwere in my patb«
— 3ome f^^MVM.— .Bulletin wanted about my toe !



I THINK I topk occaaioii to remark in a preceding chapter,
that it is amazing to observe, in the course of ProvideiiHce,
. wh$t strange events will sometimes take their rise, from what
we would think very disproportionate and inadequate causes,
4ind what I am about to relate, will afford an apt illustcatioii
of the old Scots saying, << a little spark will someiimes breed
muckle wark^ as well as the truth of the remark, that, when
we meet with any mischief, we do not know, where, or how
it will end

One of the lions in the way that I met with at Inverness,
and which did me, what I considered, considerable injury
at the time, required some explanation from Mr ,



IN TB£ JOUAKET OF LIFE. 5ltO

and in order to obtain it, I lost no time after my return, to
correspond with tliat gentleman, on the subject, which cor-
respondence ended, in a meeting betwixt ut, at Ay ton, on
Friday the 31st, or last day of July.
