ON THE TRAVELLED STONE, &C 



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XVI. — Account of the Travelled Stone near Cas- 

 tle Stuart, Inverness-shire. 



By Thomas Lauder Dick, Esq. 



In a Letter to Professor Jameson, communicated through the 

 late Dr John Gordon. 



(Read 17 th May 1817J 



My Dear Sir, 



I have many apologies to offer, for not having 

 earlier fulfilled a promise I made you when last in 

 Edinburgh, of examining into the circumstances 

 which attended the transportation of the Travelled 

 Stone near Castle- Stuart, in Inverness-shire; and 

 of satisfying that curiosity which I appeared to have 

 awakened in your mind, by the imperfect account I 

 was at that time enabled to give you of it from re- 

 port ; by transmitting to you a more accurate and 

 particular detail of the phenomena accompanying 

 that event, from my own personal research. It was 

 on this very day of last year, that I had an oppor- 



