C ^85» ) 
I have quite forgot ^ all I remember is, that Dr Piu 
cairn was at the pains to find out the Impofture 5 and 
it was found at laft that a roguifti Boy to be kept from 
School, had fo much cunning as to impofe on a fond 
Mother and other people. 
Battel, Ofto- 
ber 25, 1700. 
VI IL Part of a Letter from Dr GeorgeGarden 
to the Publi[her^ eomerning a Stone cut from 
a Chil^.having a Flint vpithin it. ^>f '^ *^ 
T^Here was a remarkable paffage tliat fell out in 
this Shire concerning a young Boy of five or fix : 
years of age, who was Cut of the Stone, and when the 
Stone was taken out of the Bladder, being by accident 
broke a little, there was to be feen witten it a Flint 
Stone fhaped like to that of a Piftol, with the jCalcu- 
lus crufted about it. I faw this Gravel Stone with my 
eyes, having the Flint in one fide of it, but crufted a- 
bove. It is ftill in the Cuftody of the Child's Father- 
in-Law, one Mr Alexander Rohertfon^ Minifter of the 
Church of Longfide^ in Buchan^ and the Surgeon was 
one Mx Smithy who lives near to Gordoun Cajile. Tliat 
the Flint has not been formed in tlie Bladder, but that 
this might have been occafioned by the Boys (wallow- 
ing of the Flint Stone, feeras probable from another 
ftrange inftance of a man in the fame Country, his 
voiding 
