Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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        four in the morning when we
        rowed across to the Tail of the
        Bank10 and got on board of
        the “Augusta” wh[ic]h had arrived
5     there an hour previous. At
        nine o'clock we went to
        Greenock and visited the necrop-
        olis at the back of the Town{.}
        < I think the same that Mr. Brodie
        has got a cairn in.>11
        And after having taken a walk
10    over the top of the hill re-
        turned on board ship again{.}
        Donald Campbell, P. McCallum
        nor my brother came on board
        so I bid them goodbye and
15    came up by myself. I found
        Capt[ain] [and] Mrs. Crowe there. We shortly
        afterwards dined [and] Mrs. Crowe
        [and] the Capt[ain] went on shore. The
        Capt[ain] returned at four bring[ing]
20   a Rev[eren]d Mr. McKay and
        two others with him.12 The
        minister gave the folks an
        address and then distributed

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