254. Mr. Forses’s. Account of the Effecis-of 
-fhe bafis of the rock, till they met on the oppofite fide, and 
patied much the fame courfe, till it came to another rock, not 
quite © high; nor of fo wide a bafe: ‘At-this reck it entered 
the ground, and raifed it from its bed about three inches, tho’ 
it was of feveral tons weight ; which was the laft effects I could 
.difcover of ‘it. - — dcs | = 
The fecond. main branch, which feemed to contain the next 
greateft quantity, took its rout we(tward by aftone wall ; on the 
north fide of which was a bank of fnow, about fix inches deep, 
A : To VV ALGI y dta is Pec ie DUILIO VCO a L] wall under 
ide à; ui^ : Pi CR E N 
the fnow, rending and removing fome of the foundation-ftones, 
and undermining others. Though it paffed chiefly on the north 
fide of the wall, under the fnow, yet it was not confined to 
that fide; for it crofled under it (everal times, before it got to 
the diftance of fifty yards. Then it divided itlfjnto two 
branches ; and one turned of fouthward, àcrofsa piece of grafs- 
land, alittle defcending towards the fouth, about -two rods ; 
which broughtát upon a plain, or level, with the fidge of a 
"barn, which ftood on a beach near the éa-fide; about fifty rods 
diftant from the above-Gid erafs-plot. It entered at the weft 
end, juft below the peak, —pafled on the under fide of the ridge- 
pole to a king-poft, where it again divided into two branches ; 
one ran down the poft like an engraver's tool, within four feet 
of the ground, where about one third part of the poft was hewed 
otf ; and on the oppofite fide was a fpike, which was juft en- 
“tered into the wood, and ftood horizontal :—it pafied round the 
: poft to the head of the {pike ;—pafled over the head,—drilled 
imali hole,—returned along the {pike to the poft, and then, 
; fplintering | 6 ‘continued its courfe to the ground, and no fur- 
her traces appeared. "The other branch continued its coure 
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