160 Letier from Dr. Wm. Meade. 
thg first person who on the ensuing morning noticed that it 
had been removed during the night. 
- [lost no time in seeing the old man whose name is _Al- 
exander Macgillivray, and | was lucky enough to find him 
at home, he informed me that this remarkable circum- 
stance took place on the night between Friday the 19th, 
and Saturday the 20th of February, in the year 1799. 
There had been a very severe frost, and the greater part 
of the little bay had been’ for some time covered with ice, 
which was probably formed there the more readily owing to 
the fresh water from the stream running near to Castle Stu- 
art, emptying itself into the inlet of the sea in the imme- 
diate neighbourhood. The stone was, by this means, fast 
secured by the ledge, which I have described being bound 
round by a vast cake of ice of many yards in extent, which 
being froze hard under the projection of the stone, must 
have produced an admirable mechanical means for its ele- 
vation, for which purpose it afforded an extensive draft. 
The miller told us he had measured some of the ice and ~ 
found it eighteen inches thick. The stone was. then sur- 
rounded when the sea left it at its ebb, and the whole of 
the circumjacent land was left covered by this solid and 
unbroken glacier. Itis evident that as the sea began again 
1is WOU naturally buoyed up by the return- 
ing water imsinuating itself underneath it on the night of 
the 19th of February, the tide which happéned to be re- 
markably high, was full about 12 o’clock. About this time, 
the wind began to blow a hurricane, accompanied with 
drifting snow. The old man stated that this tremendous 
storm blew directly from Dulcross Castle, and accordingly 
I found that by placing myself at the stone-and looking at 
Dulcross, the post marking the former situation of the mass 
appeared quite in the line between those two points, and 
that the strait line or furrow described by the stone in the 
course of ils voyage lay in this direction. 
_ When the old miller got up on the morning of Saturday, 
the 26th, the storm and drifted snow was such that he could 
hardly make his way to his barns, though they are but a 
few yards distant from his dwelling house. When the 
weather had moderated in some degree, and the storm and 
snow had cleared away, so that he could see across the lit- 
tle bay, he remarked to his wife with much astonishment 
