Scientific Intelligence, — Meteorology. 18f 



€d from the Linnhe Loch, another arm of the sea> extending 

 south-west and north-east, about three miles north of the place 

 in which they were found, A range of moorland, about 300 

 feet above the level of the sea, intervenes; but it is easier to 

 suppose the cause which originally elevated these fry to be so 

 powerful as to carry them this height and distance, than that 

 they should obtain a course contrary to the general body of the 

 air. They exhibited no appearance of being bruised by the fall, 

 nor was there any thing which could induce them to believe that 

 water had fallen at the same time.*" — 'Letter Rev. Colin Smith 

 of Appin to the Editor* 



6. Shower of Herrings in Galloway. — " Macchirmore, or 

 the Head of the Macchirs *, for indeed there is not much white 

 ground above it, pertains to Dunbar of Macchirmore. It is 

 situate upon the east side of the river of Cree, one mile distant 

 to the south from the town of Monnygaffe ; and here is the first 

 ford of the water of Cree, except that betwixt Kirkmabreck and 

 Wigton, of which more hereafter. This ford is five miles, or 

 thereby, in recta linea, to the northward distant from Wigton. 

 In the moors of this parish of Monnygaffe, not many years since, 

 at a place called La Spraig, not far distant from the water of 

 Munnach, but sixteen miles distant from the sea, there fell a 

 shower of herring, which were seen by creditable persons, who 

 related the story to me. Some of the said herring were, as I 

 am informed, taken to the Earl of Galloway's house, and shown . 

 to him."" — Andrew Symson's Large Description of Galloway ^ 

 1684. Edinb, 1823, p. 31. 



7. Shower of Herrings in Kinross-shire. — Mr Arnot informs 

 me, that, about a year ago, a shower of herrings fell near Loch 

 Leven ; it came in the direction of the Frith of Forth, and the 

 herring are conjectured to have been blown out of the water of 

 the Frith, and carried by the wind across Fifeshire, to the place 

 where they were found, in the vicinity of Loch Leven. 



8. Shower of Shells in Ireland. — "I send you another in- 

 stance of a shower of shells, which fell at Monastereen, in the 



•* Macharmor is not " the Head of the Macchirs," but the Great Machar, or 

 level arable district. The Head of the Machars would be Ceann-a-Mhachair.— Edit. 



