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The first stage of my journey from Dorlin was again Fort William, where I slept, and whence next morning I proceeded by an old-fashioned stagecoach to my destination, which lay midway between Fort William and Kingussie. We had not gone far before I heard an English voice shouting something to the passengers near in tones of great excitement.
I was conscious of being specially hampered in attempting to deal minutely with the statistical fallacies of Bright. I was still in this state of mind a year after my first visit to Dorlin when I received a letter from Lady Howard asking me to come to them again. I went, and all the charm of my first visit repeated itself; but repeated itself with this difference that it was no longer undisturbed.
The cost in some instances was very great; for, in constructing the present beautiful carriage drive from Sheil Brude to Dorlin House, hundreds of yards of solid rock had to be blasted; part of the river Sheil had to be embanked; huge boulders between the cliffs and the sea-shore had to be cleared away, while a considerable line of breastwork had to be erected as a protection against the waves of the Atlantic, which, in a southwest gale, beat with great fury against the coast.
One guest at Dorlin, who had left just before my arrival, was the then Lord Lorne, and I was told by Lady Howard that the boatmen who had helped him to land Catholic Macdonalds all of them had been heard saying to one another that "not so very long ago no Campbell would have dared to set foot in the Macdonald country."
He added to the property very gradually, bit by bit; first a vineyard, and then an oliveyard, as opportunities offered, and indulged over it the same passion for improvement which he had displayed at Abbotsford and Dorlin. He took the most practical interest in all the culture that makes up a Provencal farm, the wine, the oil, the almonds, the figs, not forgetting the fowls and the rabbits.
Hope- Scott's Kindness to his Highland Tenants Builds School and Church at Mingarry Church at Glenuig Sells Dorlin to Lord Howard of Glossop Other Scottish Missions aided by Mr. Hope-Scott His Irish Tenantry His Charities at Hyeres. The reader has now been enabled to form an opinion of Mr. Hope-Scott's character and actions in various aspects.
Hope-Scott did not indeed find gold at Dorlin, but he spent a great deal over it, which he was sometimes tempted to regret; but, on the whole, thought that the outlay had been devoted to legitimate objects, and that, as an experiment, it had succeeded. A long wished-for event had lately thrown a bright gleam of sunshine over the house. On June 2, 1857, Mrs.
Hope-Scott came to Lochshiel, it happened, during service in a small country chapel close to the present site of Dorlin House, that one of the congregation fainted, and had to be carried out. After the service was over, the late Mr. Stewart, proprietor of Glenuig, asked this man what was the cause of his illness.
Hence it is that my two months' absence from England seems to count as years on this point. Indeed, Gladstone's great declaration on Monday last is supposed to be due to the rapid progress of a few weeks, or even days.... Yours affectionately, The Same to the Same. Dorlin, Strontian: Sept. 16, '68.
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