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e e. Two pits obferved years ago, now funk much- 
deeper. 
fff Former clear fmall fprings, where it is fup- 
pofed the water now vents itfelf. 
g g. Steep rifing ground, or woods, on each fide 
Frooyd, declining towards theLooyd. 
LXXXI. An Account of the Agitation of 
the TV aters, on the lji of November 1756, 
in Scotland and at Hamburgh. Commu- 
nicated hy John Pringle, M, D. F. R. S. in 
a Letter to the Rev . Tho. Birch, D. D. 
Secret. R. S. 
S I R, 
Read Mar. is, H E two inclofed accounts of the 
I agitation of the waters, on the firft 
of November laft, I received fince the laft meeting of 
the Society. One was tranfmitted to me by Dr. 
Simfon, profeffor of medicine in the univerfity of 
St. Andrews, containing the obfervation of Mr. Mark 
M‘Callum, matter of a Greenland fhip, who hap- 
pened to be that day at the Queen’s-Ferry, afea-port 
town on the Frith of Forth, about feven miles far- 
ther up than Le ; th. The account is addretted to 
the rev. Mr. Dalgleifh, a friend of Dr. Simfon’s, and, 
employed by him to procure the beft information. 
Dr. Simfon, in the fame letter to me, takes notice 
of a report, as if the fame agitation of the water was 
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