PHYSICAL anp LITERARY, 467 
picked up the following account. | Per- 
“ haps the whole may be of little confe= | 
** quence; or, if it is, may come too late 
“to be of any ufe to the gentlemen who 
** defired it. 
“ AzsouT half an hour after ten in the 
“‘ morning of the 1{t of November, Loch- 
“ néfs was obferved to rife in a moft ex- 
‘‘ traordinary manner at Fort Auguftus; 
“ it rufhed with great rapidity above two 
* hundred yards up the river Oich, which 
« runs into the Loch near the Fort; it laft- 
“* ed by the beft accounts about three mi- 
“ nutes: The people of the country, un- 
“ accuftomed to {uch an appearance, ima- 
“ gined at firft it was caufed by a great 
“number of felks rufhing up the Loch, 
“There was no fhock of any fort felt on 
 fhore, and the air was remarkably clear, 
“ and avery mild day, the wind then ‘be- 
* ing wefterly (and of courfe againft the 
** ftream.) 
“I could get no account of any perfon’s 
“being in a boat on the Loch at the 
“time; but what follows has an air of 
“truth; becaufe the relater is reckoned 
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