The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . l-known station atArdoch. But if so, we have here evidence of the fact that in thesecond century of our era the Kincardine moss was an unstable andboggy waste, which the Roman engineer could only pass by abandon-ing his favourite and durable causeway, for such a road as modemingenuity has revived in the backwood swamps of America. Such are some of the ancient chronicles of Scotland garnered forus in the eastern valley of the Forth. The banks of the Cl^de havebeen scarcely less liberal in their disclosures. In 1780, the first re-corded discov
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . l-known station atArdoch. But if so, we have here evidence of the fact that in thesecond century of our era the Kincardine moss was an unstable andboggy waste, which the Roman engineer could only pass by abandon-ing his favourite and durable causeway, for such a road as modemingenuity has revived in the backwood swamps of America. Such are some of the ancient chronicles of Scotland garnered forus in the eastern valley of the Forth. The banks of the Cl^de havebeen scarcely less liberal in their disclosures. In 1780, the first re-corded discovery of one of the primitive canoes of the Clyde wasmade by workmen engaged in digging the foundation of Old Church. It was found at a depth of tAventy-five feet fromthe surface, and within it there lay a no less interesting and eloquentmemorial of the simple arts of the remote era when the navies of the ^ Vide Wern. Trans, vol. iii. p. 125, for recent alluvial formation of tbe valley of thethe characteristic remains included in the AliORIGINAL TKACES. 35 Clyde wevc hewn out of tlio oaks of tlie Caledonian forests. Tliis isa beautifully-finished stone celt, represented in the woodcut—doubt-less one of the simple implements of its owTier, if not, indeed, one of the tools with which such vesselswere fashioned into shape; thoughit is undoubtedly more adapted forwar than for any peaceful measures 51 inches in length,by 3j inches in greatest breadth ;and is apparently formed of dark greenstone. It is now in thepossession of Charles Wilsone Brown, Esq., of Wemyss, Renfrewshire,having descended to him from a maternal relative who chanced to bepassing at the time of the discovery, and secured the curious excavations of the following year brought a second canoe to light,at a higher level, and still further removed from the modern rivers to the site of Glasgows ancient City Cross, and immediatelyadjoining what was once the Tolbooth of the bu
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