VIII. ACCOUNT of a REMARKABLE AGITATIONC/"/^ 

 Waters o/'Locn TAY: In a Letter from the Reverend 

 Mr THOMAS FLEMING, Minifler of Kenmore, to the Reve- 

 rend JOHN PLAYFAIR, M. A. F. R. S. EDIN. and now 

 ProfeJJbr of Mathematics in the Univerjity of EDINBURGH. 



[Read by Mr PLATFAIR, Dec. 6. 1784.] 



DEAR SIR, Kenmore Manfe y Nov. 4. 1784. 



I DID not return from the excurfion on which I was when I 

 had the pleafure to fee you at Dundee till laft Tuefday night. 

 On my arrival, I found your letter refpeding the phenomenon 

 that lately happened in this neighbourhood. Although ill 

 qualified to give you fatisfadtion upon this fubjedl, I {hall, 

 however, comply with your defire, and give you the moft accu- 

 rate account of that phenomenon which I have been able to 

 obtain. 



ON Sunday the iath of September, about nine o'clock in the 

 morning, an unufual agitation was obferved in LOCH TAY, near 

 the village of Kenmore. That village ftands at the eaft end of 

 the lake, having the river, which there iflues from the lake, on 

 the north fide, and a bay, about i 60 yards in length and 200 yards 

 in breadth, on the fouth. The greater part of this bay is very 

 lhallow, being generally no more than two or three feet deep j 

 but before it joins the body of the lake, it becomes fuddenly 

 very deep. At the extremity of this bay, the water was ob- 

 ferved to retire about five yards within its ordinary boundary, 

 and in four or five minutes to flow out again. In this manner, 

 it ebbed and flowed fucceflively three or four times during the 

 fpace of a quarter of an hour, when, all at once, the water 



rufhed 



