II. 



PAPERS OF THE LIT E RART CLASS. 



I. ^Account of fome Extraordinary Structures 

 on the Tops of Hills in the Highlands; with Remarks on 

 the Progrefs of the Arts among the ancient Inhabitants of Scot- 

 land. By Alexander Fraser Tttler, Efq\ Advocate, 

 F. R. S. Ed in. and Profeffor of Civil Hi/lory in the TJniverfity 

 of Edinburgh *. 



IN the year 1777, an account was publifhed by Mr John- 

 Williams, mineral-engineer, of certain remains of an- 

 cient buildings on the fummits of fome of the hills in the 

 Highlands of Scotland, which had hitherto efcaped obfervation, 

 and which to him afforded grounds for a very extraordinary 

 fuppofition, That they had been cemented together by means of 

 Fire. He mentioned feveral of thofe hills exhibiting remains 

 of building, which he had vifited and examined ; particularly 

 the hill of Knockfarril in Rofs-fhire, Craig-Phadrick near In- 

 vernefs, Dun-Evan and Caftle-Finlay in the county of Nairn, 

 and the Caftle-hill of Finhaven in the county of Angus. He 

 defcribed the veftiges of regular fortifications on the fummits of 



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* Part of this Paper was read in 1783, before the Philofophical Society of Edinburgh. 

 It is now enlarged, and printed by order of the Committee for publication of the Trans- 

 actions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.. 



