II. 



PAPERS OF THE LIT E RARY CLASS. 



I. ^« Account offome Extraordinary Structures 

 on the Tops of Hills in the H i G h l A n D s 3 -with Remarks on 

 the Progrefs of the Arts among the ancient Inhabitants of Scot- 

 land. By Alexander Eraser Tyt:ler, Efq\ Advocate^ 

 F. R.S.Ed IN. and Prof effor of Civil Hifory in the Univerfity 

 of Edinburgh *. 



IN the year 1777, an account was publiflied by Mr John 

 Williams, mineral-engineer, of certain remains of an- 

 cient buildings on the fummits of fome of the hills in the 

 Highlands of Scotland, which had hitherto efcaped obfervation, 

 and which to him aflforded grounds for a very extraordinary 

 fuppofition, That they had been cemented together by means of 

 Fire. He mentioned feveral of thofe hills exhibiting remains 

 of building, which he had vifited and examined ; particularly 

 the hill of Knockfarril in Rofs-ihire, Craig-Phadrick near In- 

 vernefs, Dun-Evan and Caflle-Finlay in the county of Nairn, 

 and the Caftle-hill of Finhaven in the county of Angus. He 

 defcribed the veftiges of regular fortifications on the fummits of 



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• Part of this Paper was read in 1783, before the Philofophical Society of Edinburgh. 

 It is now enlarged, and printed by order of the Committee for pubhcation of the Tranf- 

 aftions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.. 



