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47°. ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 
*< viz. the giving an account of the com- 
* motion that was obferved in the waters 
* of Loch-lomond on the 1ft of November, 
* is already executed by Mr Macfarlane 
*¢ the minifter of Arrochar, according to 
“the beft accounts he could get of it 
** from the fpectators; as I was not an 
* eye-witnefs of this uncommon pheno= 
*¢ senon, and as the account he gives of itis 
® perfectly agreeable to the relations of all 
* thofe who faw it, I will write you an ex~ 
* act copy of his relation, which, I think, is 
* as fulland diftinc an account as can be 
* got of it. 
“On the 1ft day of November laft, 
* Toch-lomond, all of a fudden, and with- 
* out any guft of wind, rofe againtt its 
“ banks with great rapidity, and imme- 
** diately retired; and in five minutes time 
* fubfided, till it was as low in appear- 
*‘ ance as any body then prefent had ever 
* feen it in time of the greateft fummer 
* drought, and then it inftantly returned 
* toward the fhore, and, in five minutes 
* time, rofe as high as it was before ; and 
* the agitation continued at this rate from 
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