232 On the Combuftien of dead Bodies 
numerous opportunities that have lately occurred 
to examine the contents of Cairns and other 
ancient Coemeteries, have at laft brought it into 
votice. In a ftatiftical Account of the parifhes of 
Rutherglen and Killbride, recently publifhed at 
Glafgow, the author, Mr. David Ure, has confirmed 
every thing I have advanced refpecting Cairns being 
rue fepulchres; and added feveral interefting par= 
ticulars of a fimilar nature, 
He alfo (page 223) takes notice of a large Sepuly 
chre, containing a number of urns, and a quantity 
of fragments of bones, fituated in a place bearing 
a fimilar name to that where the inftruments 
were found ; and which appears to agree, in feve~ 
ral refpects, with the inclofure firft defcribed by 
me. It is called Strath-Blane: Strath means a 
portion of low and level ground, generally divided 
by a river;* and Blane feems to be the appel- 
lative or diftinguifhing name of this, from other 
Straths, being in all probability a Saxon word, (as 
none of the Highlanders I have fpoken to feem to 
know its meaning) importing a place of fepulture. 
The farm at Caerlaverock, in which the coeme. 
tery is RDA is called Kell-blane: Kell (i. €. 
Cell) 
* Thus, in Scotland, we have Strath-More, Strath- 
Spey, Strath-Erne, Strath-Avon, &c, being long and level 
vales, with rivers of the names of More, Spey, Erne, &c» 
running through the midft of them, 
