7^ a?itiquitiis in Scotland. May t. 



taken and coinmitted to the care of a soldier, from 

 •whom he contrived to escape. The soldier was con- 

 demned to death. At the place of execution, a man, 

 -coming up to the commanding officer, said, " Sir, I am 

 a stranger to jou, but you {hall soon know who I 

 am. I have heard that one of your soldiers is to die 

 for having suffered a prisoner to escape. He was 

 not at all to blame ; besides the prisoner fliall be re- 

 stored to you. Behold him here : I am the man. 

 I cannot bear ;:hat an innocent man fhould be punifli- 

 ed for me : And have come to die myself."—" No," 

 cried the French officer, who felt the sublimity of the 

 action as he ought, " thou fhalt not die ; and the sol- 

 dier ffiall be set at liberty. Endeavour to reap the 

 fruits of thy generosity. Thou deservest to be hence- 

 forth an honest man." 



ON THE ANCIENT BUILDINGS IN SCOTLAND 



CALLED DHUNTES. 

 Co/itinued from p. 204 and concluded. 

 All the dry stone circular buildings I have yet seen 

 in any part of Scotland of a considerable height, were 

 accompanied with stairs and galleries; but I have 

 also seen others, in some sort resembling these, 

 though none of them were of great height, nor ever 

 seem to have been so, in which, by the most diligent 

 search I could make, no traces of stairs, or internal 

 openings, cotild be perceived, and which, from their 

 situation and accompanyments, seem rather to have 

 been intended as places of strength, and covers for re- 

 fuge in times of danger, than for the purposes of 

 •tt'orliiip. Of this sort I can now point out three or 



