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covered by 18 inches of water. The stones were of very even size and 
the slope of the island about one in five, the depth of water at the 
island’s edge being about 8 feet. On the N.E. side we came upon wood 
and made every effort to secure a log by means of the anchor and bring 
it to the surface. But in this we were not successful. From inquiries 
on the spot we learned that a causeway led from the island to a point 
on the N.E. bay of the loch, and that black oak had been found and 
had been taken away as a curiosity. 
Loch Knockie.—I visited the islands in this loch in June. The 
smaller island is certainly artificial and measures 30 feet by 12 feet, 
but the purpose of its construction 50 yards from the larger one, which 
measures 42 feet by 219, is difficult to explain. I trust on a future 
occasion to examine the larger island more carefully. 
Loch Asalaich, Glenurquhart, and Loch Farraline, Boleskine.— 
These islands, which were suggested as artificial, have not yet been 
examined, the latter presents some difficulty as it is now part of the 
reservoir for the British Aluminium Works at Foyers. 
The county of Inverness includes some of the Hebrides, but the 
examples which these afford will be best considered later. 
Ross and Cromarty. 
Loch Kinellan.—This affords an interesting example of proof as to 
the island being artificial éven by an unwilling witness. Mr. Herbert 
Corbett, the tenant of Kinellan, was at first most sceptical as to there 
being anything about the island that was not purely natural. After some 
correspondence, however, Mr. Corbett consented to seek for wood 
amongst the foundations of the island, and on October 15 he wrote: 
* My brother and I first tried where I thought you had found the timbers 
and here we found a paved causeway, just beneath the water, extend- 
ing some yards from the island. We also thought we touched timbers 
at about 7 feet below the water-level and 10 to 12 feet from the shore— 
all this on the S.E. angle, so to speak, of the island. Our sounding- 
pole clung so hard to the mud that we could not work properly, so we 
tried along the S. side nearer the stones. Here we found with an iron 
rod four beams about 6 feet apart in rather less than 4 feet of water. We 
then moved to the S.W. angle, where we found four more, much more 
irregularly placed as regards the radu of the island and much nearer 
together, not more than 3 feet apart. There are also the stumps of 
the oak posts above water-level, that look as though they might have 
formed a pier at one time.’ Mr. Corbett also stated that the Ordnance 
Map showed the island to measure °558 of an acre. A fortnight later 
he wrote: ‘ Taking advantage of the fact that the snow prevented work 
in the garden, I took the men over to the island this morning and dug 
a hole 6 feet or so in diameter, and from 4 to 5 feet deep. All the 
soil was made and had been piled in and was full of big and little 
boulders none larger than could be carried by one man. I selected a 
spot near the middle of the S. side where a kind of gap occurs in the 
stone wall of the island, and about 20 feet from the water-line. At 
about 3 feet or less we came to a layer of sand, consisting mainly of 
white sand and broken pottery or what looks like it, forming a sort 
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