4 36 OF THE MURRAY FIRTH. 



that inftead of poor foup-meagre, fuch as the gene- 

 rality of the farmc: om have for din- 

 ner, lie wilhed his tenants fhou - every 



, hot or cold ; and thofe who did not fare thus 

 he confidcred as it drones, and 



iled to , that the 



rents of his eftate were at 



every man's table. 



In the counrrv round Cullen arc numeroi 

 or barrows, the places of of the ancient 



Caledonians, and the Danes, *hod bring com- 



mon to both nations. At Kil-hillock, or the hill of 

 burial, demolifhed ib; 



years ago. Its diameter was 60 feet, the height i 

 formed intirely of the (tones brought from the fhofe, 

 as appears by the limpets, mufcles, and other fh< 

 mixed with them. The whole was covered with a 

 layer of earth 4 feet thick, and that finifhed with a 

 very nice coat of green fod, inclofing the whole. It 

 feems to have been originally formed by making a 

 deep trench round the (pot, and flinging the ea 

 inwards : then other materials brought to complete 

 the work, which mud have been by a whole army. 

 On breaking open this cairn, on the fummit of the 

 ftony heap beneath the integument of earth, was 

 found a (lone coffin, formed of long flags, and in it 

 the complete (keleton of a human body, lain at full 

 length, with every bone in its proper place: and 

 with them a deer's horn, the fymbol of the favou- 

 rite aimilement of the deceafed. 



In (everal other cairns, which have lately been 

 opened, were found urns containing charcoal, afhes, 

 burnt bones, flint arrows heads with almoft vitri; 

 fui The materials of the urns appear to have 



been found in the neighbourhood ; and confifl of a 

 coarie clay mixed with fmall ftones and fand, and 

 feem to have been only drkrd, and not burnt. 



At the diftance of 6 miles from Cullcn, is Port- 

 foy, from whence confiderable quantities of grain are 



annually 



