%'J^i- on antifuities IK Scotland. jf^ 



rious pafaion glistened in his eyes, and was visible 

 iQ every word. Have we not seen that he was the 

 tutelar genius of all those with whom he lived. When 

 he perceived himself dying, all his regret was to leave 

 so many unhappy mortals behind : " Oh !" exclaimed 

 he, " if it was but given to a mortal to make happi- 

 nefs a legacy." The Abbe Blanchet died at St Ger- 

 mains en laye, the ipth January 1784. Good men. 

 regret him, his friends bewail his lofs, and the poor 

 blefs his memory. 



Farther remarks on the circular buildings 



CALLED DhUNES* IN SCOTLAND, WITH CONJECTURES 

 CONCERNING THE USES FOR WHICHJ THESE HAVj: 

 BEEN ORIGINALLY INTENDED. 



Continued froTn vol. vii. p. 289. 

 Buildings of this sort, have never yet been discp- 

 vered in England ; nor have I heard of any on the 

 east coast of Scotland farther south than Rofsfliire. 

 Many vestiges of these are to be found among the 

 Western Isles, and along the western coasts of Scot- 

 land far south. Dun M'Swene in Kilmartine parifli, 

 and Dun Aula in Craignifli, both in Argylefhire, are 

 the southermost I have yet heard of. Mr Pennant 

 has described, with great accuracy, the remains of 

 two structures of that sort in Gleti-elg ; and Dhune- 

 dornadilla, in the parifh of Rea in Sutherland, has 

 been accurately described by the reverend Mr Pope. 

 They are also frequently to be met with in the Shet- 

 land isles, as appears from the following extract of.a 

 letter from Arthur Nicliolson, younger, of Lochend 

 • So I find '.li:s wyrd IhuuIJ be spclr. 



