HISTORY of the SOCIETY. 5 
On each fide of the entrance from the caufeway, the wall is 
formed into a circular tower, and within it are three or four 
foundations of houfes. 
Turis little ifland is inhabited by adders, and by the large 
Scotch eagle, called the Earn. 
On leaving it, our traveller proceeded along the fhore, 
about a mile toward the fouth, in order to vifit another ifland, 
called the White Ifland. The White Ifland is in fac fur- 
rounded by the loch only on three fides. On the fourth, it is 
contiguous to a peat-mofs of the kind called a flow-mofs, and is 
feparated from it bya ditch about 36 feet wide and 300long, which 
ditch is ftrengthened by a ftrong breaft-work on the fide toward 
the ifland. You enter by what feems to have been the ancient gate, 
where the ditch is filled up. The ifland is about 552 feet long;and 
nearly of the fame breadth. It appears to have been a Roman 
fortification, and in all probability is what CAMBDEN calls the 
Cardea of ANTONINUS. There is a tradition here, that a num- 
ber of Roman foldiers were ftarved to death in this ifland. 
On the eaft fide of it, there are two mounts of about 38 feet 
in diameter each, and at fome diftance from one another. 
On the north fide, the foundation of feveral buildings are {till 
to be feen. 
Tue water of Urr runs out of the loch on the weft fide of 
this ifland. 
Ir is to be remarked, that the names of the places in this 
neighbourhood are Gaelic, which language was fpoken in the 
remote parts of Galloway fo late as 1671 and 1672. 
Mr Profeffor Dauzet alfo read an Effay on Poetry, confider- 
ed as an Imitative Art. 
Lit. Cl. Dr AnpeRson read a paper, containing Obferva- 
tions on the Perfonal Pronouns. 
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14789. 
April 20. 
Mr Dalzel on 
poetry. 
June 15. 
Dr Anderfon on 
perfonal pro- 
nouns, 
