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Meal-fuor-vouny, of a round shape, and very high, esteemed 2 miles of per- 

 pendicular height from the lake. On the very top of this hill is a lake of cold 

 fresh water, about 30 fathoms in length, and 6 broad, no course or stream 

 running either to it or from it. The bottom of it cannot be sounded. With 

 100 fathoms of small line I could find no bottom. It is always equally full, and 

 never freezes. 



There is, due west, from the end of the river Ness, an arm of the sea, 

 called Beuly Frith, 6 miles in length and 2 in breadth. This bottom seems to 

 have once been firin land, for near the middle of it are found long oak trees, 

 with their roots entire, some above 6o feet in length, lying covered with the 

 sand, which doubtless have grown there ; there are also three great cairns or 

 heaps of stones in this lake, at considerable distance from each other; one of a 

 huge size, in the middle of the Frith, is accessible at low water, and appears to 

 have been a burial place, by the urns vvhich are sometimes discovered. As the 

 sea encroaches and wears the banks upward, there are found long oaken beams 

 of 20 or 30 feet long, some of them 8, 12, or 14 feet under ground. I saw 

 one of them 14 feet long, that had the mark of the axe on it, with several 

 augre bores in it. The river Beuly, which falls into this arm of the sea, near 

 Lovat, has sunk so low that oaken trees of great length, and l6 feet under 

 ground, are discovered in the banks, with layers of sand, gravel, clay, and earth 

 over them ; and we have found some oaks, with coals, and pieces of burnt timber, 

 as low as 1 6 feet deep. 



About 17 miles due west from Beuly, there is a forest called AfFaruck, in 

 which there is a mountain called Glenin-tea, and on the north side, upder the 

 shade of a great sloping rock, stands a lake of tVesh water, called Lochah Wyn, 

 or Green Lake, 18 feet in diameter, about a fathom deep, which is always covered 

 with ice, summer and winter. The next mountain, north of that, is called 

 Sctire-in-Lappich ; on the top of which is a vast heap of white stones like crystals 

 each of them larger than a man can throw, which strike fire like flint, and have 

 the smell of sea-weed. On this mountain is found also oyster, scallop, and 

 limpet-shells, though 10 miles from any sea. Round this hill grows the sea- 

 pink, in Irish, teartag, having the taste and colour of that which grows on the 

 sea banks. 



The Pagan temples, or high places of idolatry, are still very numerous here ; 

 on the river side of Narden I reckoned 13 in 2 miles: they are round, and at 

 the west end have two high stones like pyramids ; there is an outer and inner 

 circle of lesser stones, and a round mote in the centre for the sacrifices. 

 Another sort of them is only of earth, with a trench round about, and a mote 

 in the middle. In many of these I find a round heap of stones with urns in 



