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** I will write you an exad copy of his re- 

 *' lation, which, I think, is as full and dif- 

 ** tindt an account as can be got of it. 



" On the ill day of November lajfl, Loch- 

 *' lomond^ all of a fudden, and without any 

 *' guft of wind, rofe againft its banks with 

 *' great rapidity, and immediately retired j 

 *' and in five minutes time fublided, till it 

 *' Was as low in appearance as any body then 

 *' prefent had ever feen it in time of the 

 " greatqft fummer drought, and then it in- 

 " ftantly returned toward the fhore, and in 

 " five minutes time rofe as high as it was 

 ** before j and the agitation continued at 

 *' this rate from half an hour paft nine fore- 

 " noon till fifteen minutes paft ten, taking 

 " five minutes to rife and as many to fub- 

 " fide J and from fifteen minutes after ten, 

 " till eleven, every rife came fomewhat {hort 

 " in height of the immediately preceeding 

 " rife, taking five minutes to flow, and five 

 «« to ebb, until the water fettled as it was 

 *' before the agitation. After the agitation 

 ** was over, the height to which the water 

 ** had rofe was meafured, and found to be 

 " 2 feet 4 inches perpendicular. Loch-long 

 •' and Loch'keatrin were agitated on the famef 



" day 



