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Sir Thomas Kilpatricks Letter. 
Clofeburne, 4 Feb. 1756. 
A Bout a quarter before nine on Sunday morning, 
we were alarmed with an unufual motion in 
the waters of Clofeburn-loch. The firft thing, that 
appeared to me in this wonderful fcene, was a itrong 
convulfion and agitation of the waters from the weSl 
fide of the loch towards the middle, where they 
tolled and wheeled about in a ftrange manner. From 
thence proceeded two large currents formed like ri- 
vers, which run with fwiftnefs and rapidity beyond 
all defcription, quite contrary ways, one from the 
middle to the fouth-eafl, and the other to the north- 
eaft points of the loch. There they were ffopt fhort, 
as the banks are pretty high, and obliged to turn, 
which occasioned a prodigious tumbling and agita- 
tion at both ends of this body of water. There was 
likewife a current, which rofe fometimes considerably 
above the Surface near the weSl fide, that I frequently 
obferved running with great velocity an hundred 
yards to the fouthward, and returning in a moment 
with as great velocity the other way. What I no- 
ticed in the next place, was the tolling of the waters 
in the ponds, which were more or lefs moved as the 
agitations of the loch came nearer this Side, or kept 
a greater distance from it. But as it is beyond my 
capacity to give a particular defcription of all that 
happened upon this occallon, I Shall conclude with 
telling you, that the agitations and currents above- 
mentioned continued, without intermiffion, for at 
lead; three hours and an half, or four hours, when 
they 
