hisTorv of the so ci Err. 



On each fide of the entrance from the caufeway, the wall is 

 formed into a circular tower, and within it are three or four 

 foundations of houfes. 



This little ifland is inhabited by adders, and by the large 

 Scotch eagle, called the Earn. 



On leaving it, our traveller proceeded along the fhore, 

 about a mile toward the fouth, in order to vifit another ifland, 

 called the White Ifland. The White Ifland is in fact fur- 

 rounded by the loch only on three fides. On the fourth, it is 

 contiguous to a peat-mofs of the kind called a flow-mofs, and is 

 feparated from it by a ditch about $6 feet wide and 300 long, which 

 ditch is ftrengthened by a flrong bread- work on the fide toward 

 the ifland. You enter by what feems to have been the ancient gate, 

 where the ditch is filled up. The ifland is about 552 feet long, and 

 nearly of the fame breadth. It appears to have been a Roman 

 fortification, and in all probability is what Cambden calls the 

 Cardea of Antoninus. There is a tradition here, that a num- 

 ber of Roman foldiers were ftarved to death in this ifland. 



On the eaft fide of it, there are two mounts of about 38 feet 

 in diameter each, and at fome diftance from one another. 

 On the north fide, the foundation of feveral buildings are ftill 

 to be feen. 



The water of Urr runs out of the loch on the weft fide of 

 this ifland. 



It is to be remarked, that the names of the places in this 

 neighbourhood are Gaelic, which language was fpoken in the 

 remote parts of Galloway fo late as 1671 and 1672. 



1789. 



Mr Profeflbr Dalzel alfo read an EflTay on Poetry, confider- A P ril 2»« 



Mr Dalzel on 



ed as an Imitative Art. 



poetry. 



Lit. CI. Dr Anderson read a paper, containing Obferva- June 15. 



tions on the Perfonal Pronouns. perfonar P ro. on 



„ nouns. 



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