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fecc, with a pretty quick motion againft the wind, 
and a rapid ftreaih, about two hundred yards up 
the river; then broke on a (hallow, and flowed about 
three or four feet on the banks on the north fide of 
the river, and returned again gently to the lake. 
That it continued ebbing and flowing in that man- 
ner for about an hour, without any waves fo re- 
markable as the firff, till about 1 1 o’clock, when a 
wave higher than any of the reft came up the river, 
and, to the great furprize of all the fpecftators, broke 
with fo much force on the low ground, on the north 
fide of the river, as to run upon the grafs upwards 
of thirty feet from the river’s bank. 
Lieut. Smith, of the artillery, Mr. Gwyn, fon of 
Captain Gwyn, of the LochNefs galley, Mr. Lumii- 
den, barrack-mafter at Fort-Auguftus, Mr. Forbes, 
barrack - mafter of Bernera, Thomas Robertfon, 
brewer at Fort-Auguftus, and George Bayne, my 
clerk, and feveral others, were the fpedators of this 
extraordinary phenomenon : fome of them faw the 
whole progrefs of it, others only a part. 
Loch Nefs is about twenty miles in length, and 
from one to one and a half mile broad • bears from 
fouth-weft to north-eaft. There was no extraordi- 
nary muddinefs obferved in the water, though it did 
not appear quite fo clear as ufual. The morning was 
cold and gloomy, and a pretty brifk gale of wind 
blowed from weft fouth-weft. The river Oich lies 
on the north fide of the fort, and on the fouth fide 
runs the river Tarff from weft fouth-weft, difcharg- 
ing itfelf alfo into the head of the lake ; and which 
was obferved to be agitated at the fame time and 
manner as the other. But there were no (bakings 
or 
