Colonsay, despite its proximity to mainland, remains one of the least spoiled of the Hebrides. To step ashore on the jetty at Scalasaig is to step back 150 years in time. It is true that all but two, or at most three, of the adult inhabitants have a knowledge of English and speak it when necessary with purity and éor-rectness and an intonation that makes of breaking a leg in the leap {: om one swaying deck to the other. june need not be unduly impressionable to be immediately aware of the slip back in time. Istead of the high-pitched voices of tourists from the South or the sing-song of. Glasgow te es; one hears the murmurous lilting a peculiarly soft Gaelic sp No one hurries as boxes. and miscellaneous luggage about the feet of the pas-gers. The work goes on as it time were of no account, but, strangely enough, the loading is done expediviously
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