ADDITIONAL NOTE. 
characterizes even the lowest of their commoners, much 
resembles the history of the Scottish Highlanders. The 
Kirgissians may be considered as Highlanders on horseback. 
Nearly the same threefold division into orders distinguished 
the Highland Clans; and the same remarkable superstitions 
still exist among these widely-separated nations. The 
author saw a Kirgissian, in Moscow, when about to 
depart into his own country, busied in divination, by 
examining the marks upon the blade-lone of a sheep, which 
had been blackened in the fire : and he remembered, at 
the time, that such a mode of divination existed in some 
country that he had visited; but not recollecting where he 
had observed it, he omitted to mention the fact; deeming it 
to be too trivial a circumstance to be noticed of itself. Having 
however recently read an account of this mode of divination 
as practised in the Highlands of Scotland* (where he now 
remembers having seen it), and also in the country of the 
AJ'ghauns, he has thought it right to introduce this Additional 
Note . 
* See the interesting Article on the “ Cullnden Papers," as inserted in 
No. XXVIII. of the Quarterly ^Review, published in May 1816. “The 
JJ'ghaun' s most ordinary mode of divination,” observes the writer of that 
article, “ is by examining the marks in the blade-bone of a sheep, held up 
to the light : and even so the Rev. Mr. Robert Kirk assures us, that in his 
time, the end of the sixteenth century, the Seers prognosticate many future 
events (only for a month’s space) from the shoulder-bone of a sheep, on 
which a knife never came.” 
