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LETTER from the Reverend Mr Maclean of 



Small Isles. 



To THE SeCRETART OF THE WeRNERIAN NATURAL 

 HlSTORT SoCIETT. 



SIR, Eigg Island, Uth April 1809. 



Your, letter of the 1st instant I received, and 

 would have written in answer thereto sooner, had 

 I not thought it desirable to examine others re*- 

 lative to the animal of which you wish me to give 

 a particular account. . 



According to my best recollection, I saw it in 

 June 1808, not on the coast of Eigg, but on that 

 of Coll. Rowing along that coast, I observed, at 

 about the distance of half a mile, an object to 

 windward, which gradually excited astonishment. 

 At first view, it appeared like a small rock. 

 Knowing there was no rock in that situation, I 

 fixed my eyes on it close. Then I saw it eleva- 



