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" ftone is Conan the fierce the long-legged*;" and the true 

 reading is, " Beneath this ftone is laid Conan the fierce the 

 " nimble-footed f ." 



Having thus fully gratified my curiofity, which alone was the 

 purpofed end of my journey at that time ; I returned home, well 

 plcafed with my fuccefs, and communicated it to my friends, to 

 whom it afforded a few days converfation concerning antiquities, 

 to my no fmall credit as the difcoverer. 



This credit, however, was foon after in much danger of be- 

 ing ruined, in confequence of the fuperftition and folly of the 

 neighbouring peafants, who had very extraordinary traditions 

 of Conan's interment. For they held it as fad, that, on open- 

 ing his grave, this wild inhofpitable mountain would at once 

 become a fertile plain — That a beautiful city, which they ima- 

 gined lay inchanted in the lake, would be opened by a key 

 which they faid was buried with him — and that a great mafs of 

 golden treafure was alfo to be acquired. Thefe enormous ex- 

 pedtations were exceedingly raifed on feeing ftrangers make fuch 

 diligent fearch after this monument. 



I HAD an alarming proof of the effeds of thefe idle opinions 

 in the late journey which I made to the mountain of Callan, at 

 the inftance of your Academy, in the beginning of Autumn 1785. 

 For when Mr. Burton and I arrived at the fpot where I had feen 



* Fan licfi ta Conan Colgac cos-fada. 



f Fan li da fica Conan Colgac cos-obmda. 



