352 Notice of a Will-o'-the- Wisp seen near Chirnside. 



Quite recently (in December, 1872), the same field has 

 furnished another Cist, close to where the one with the 

 incised cover was obtained ; which was come upon by Mr 

 Wilson's men when subsoiling the ground. Dr Stuart, after 

 visiting it, writes : " It is very rude in construction, and was 

 empty, only a little dust being in the cavity. The sides were 

 built regularly with stones, the same as those in the field. It 

 was over 3 feet in length ; 15 inches in breadth ; and was 3 

 feet deep. This is a greater depth than any I have previously 

 seen. It was covered with two stones of the ordinary Red Sand- 

 stone ; evidently a single stone split, for when the two halves 

 were laid to one another they fitted exactly. There were no 

 inscriptions on the stones." From this Cist pointing south- 

 east, Mr Wilson thought it might be of subsequent age to the 

 other, but the direction appears to be immaterial ; also from 

 its narrowness, it was supposed to have belonged to a young 

 person, but the probability is that in this instance the body 

 was disposed sideways. In the built sepulchre, it agrees 

 with that discovered at Lanton. 



While this is passing through the press, the Rev. George 

 Wilson, of Glenluce, communicates, that on a recent visit to 

 his brother, he had looked at this last Cist, and had "picked 

 up some fragments of bone, and a flint, which although un- 

 dressed, is broken into a form like a rude arrow head." — J. H. 



On a Will-d > -the- Wisp seen near Chirnside. By Charles 

 Stuart, M.D. 



A few years ago, while on duty, about midnight in the 

 month of March, during a furious storm of sleet and snow, 

 in passing a piece of waste ground on the farm of Harelaw 

 in this parish (Chirnside), I was more than surprised to find 

 my beard and hair, and also the front of my cap to become 

 luminous ; beads of a pale phosphorescent light forming on 

 the drops of melting snow, and lighting up my face. I could 

 hardly credit my senses at the time, and put up my hand to 

 dash away the fire, which flew off in sparks ; and as I 

 quickened my pace, gradually became paler, and at last 

 vanished altogether as I passed on my way. The weather 

 was very rough, as already described, and there was electricity 



