PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
XX. An Account of a Volcanic Hill near Invernefs. In 
a Letter from Thomas Weft, Efq. to Mr. Lane, F, R. S. 
DEA * oa. 27^7,6. 
Read Dec. 12, A S you feem defirous to have a more par- 
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ticular account of the lava, which I 
left at your houfe on my return from my tour in Scot- 
land, I herewith fend it you. At the fame time I muft 
own, that the little attention paid to fo extraordinary a 
phenomenon, and which feems to prove beyond a doubt 
the exiftence of volcanos in this country, is to me matter 
of great furprize. 
The hill from whence I took the fpecimens of lava 
which I have the pleafure to fend you, is about a mile 
Vol. LXVII. E e e and 
