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fear that thei sail land. The cardinall scripped and said, 
* It is but the island flote (English fleet, Calderwood) ; they 
are cum to inak a schaw and put us in fear ; I shall lodge 
all the men-of-war in my eae (eye) that shall land in Scot- 
land.' Still sits the cardinall at his dennare, even as that 
there had been no danger appearing. Men convenis to gaze 
upon the schippis, some on the Castell hill, some to the 
cragis and other places eminent. But there was no ques- 
tion, ' With what forces shall we resist yf we be invaded?' 
Sone after sax hours at nycht, were aryved and had casten 
anchor in the Eoad of Leyth mo than 200 sailles. Shortly 
thereafter the Admirall (Sir John Dudley, Lord Lisle) schot 
a flote boite, which from Granton Craggis till be east of 
Leith, sounded the deepe, and so returned to his schippe. 
Here of were diverse opinion. Men of judgement foresaw 
what it meant, but no credit was given to any that wold say, 
* Thei mynd to land' and so past all men to his rest, as if 
thei schippis had been a garde to his defence. Vpon the 
point of day, being Soneday the 4th of Maij, addressed thei 
for landing and ordered thei their schippis so that a galley 
or two laid their snowttis to the craigis. The small schippis 
called pinaces and light horsemen approached as neir als 
thei could the great schippis dischargit thare soulioris in the 
smaller veschellis, and thei by bottis put on dry land befoir 
ten houris 10,000 men. The governour and cardinall, see- 
ing then the thing that they could nott, or at least thei 
would not believe befoir, after that thei had made a brag to 
fecht, fled as fast as horses wold carry them, so that after , 
thei approched not within xx myles of the danger." — From \ 
Dr D. H. BohertsoTi's Antiquities of Leith, p. 18. 
Another fact may be mentioned here as confirmatory of ' 
the foregoing remarks. My friend Dr Paterson, well known | 
as the assiduous collector of the fossils of Wardie, between \ 
Leith and Granton, was fortunate enough to discover an ; 
earthen jar six feet under the foundation of one of the oldest | 
houses in Leith. The bed in which it lay was pure sand, 
the equivalent of Geikie's bed No. 2 (that is, blown sand). 
Tljis vessel was submitted to the inspection of Mr Birch, of 
the British Museum, who returned as his opinion, " that its 
