146 Cairns on the Island of Little Cumbray. 
but decidedly ; and it is found that this aperient effect is 
not attended with the debility which usually results from 
other cathartics. It has produced the happiest effects in many 
bilious and scorbutic habits, and many cases have occurred 
of a perfect cure of such complaints. It produces no 
heaviness on the stomach, and it in no way whatever dis- 
agrees with the constitution. Without being disagreeable 
to the taste, it acts on the bowels in even less quantities 
than other waters of the same description. 
Some remains of a Roman building and other Roman 
antiquities were elately discovered at Wraxetall Wood, iw 
the parish of Ditteredge, near Bath. Some labourers, in 
hai up a part of acoppice, discovered, among other 
hings, fragments of seven or eight columns nearly of the 
Tuscan order, smal] pieces of fresco paintings of Roman 
brick, small aqueducts, scarified tiles, and other indications 
of baths and sudatories, places that appeared to have had 
intense heat in them, in horizontal flues; a stone tablet, 
with a groove round the edge of it, for preparing the sacri- 
fice; another stone tablet, with an oval basin cut into it, 
which appeared to have borne the utmost effects of ordinary 
fire; charcoal, and bones of various animals; urns, ba- 
sins, and other utensils of red and black pottery: a vessel 
of glass, a specimen of flat window glass, a brass fabulum 
and dome, small brass coins, together with the stones, &c. 
with which the building had been roofed. The columns 
were preserved, the altars, flues, glass, pottery, &c. were 
deranged and dispersed by the labourers, and the greatest 
part of the coins were thrown away. 
Mr. Weir, of Kirkhall, near Ardrossan, having stated to 
. the Earl of Eghnton the extraordinary variation of the com- 
pass ata certain spot near some cairns of stones at Shin- 
niewilly, on the island of Little Cumbray; and as there is 
a tradition that a Dane was buried in his armour at Shinnie- 
willy, immediately opposite to the Largs, where a famous 
battle was fought; the Earl of Eglinton, the proprietor, or- 
dered a number of workmen from Ardrossan to the island, 
to open the cairns, under the superintendence of trusty per- 
sons. The workmen, acting upon the suggestions of Mr. 
Weir, when near the centre of the first cairn opened, and 
not above two feet below the level of the ground, discovered 
a circular piece of hollowed iron much corroded; the hol- 
low part three inches and a half in diameter, and two inches 
in depth, having a rim all round three quarters of an inch 
broad, 
