. Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences . It 13 apparently the very same as the roots through which the romantic stream of Cawdor cuts its deep and narrow bed, near Cawdor Castle, in Nairnshire; and no rock of the same kind as the Travelled Stone is found nearer to it than seven or eight miles. Its present situation is on the sands in the httle bay near Castle-Stuart, on the Moray Frith; and as it is left entirely dry by every receding tide, it is easily approached over the sands at low water. It is about five feet high at its most ele- vated pomt, calculating from
. Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences . It 13 apparently the very same as the roots through which the romantic stream of Cawdor cuts its deep and narrow bed, near Cawdor Castle, in Nairnshire; and no rock of the same kind as the Travelled Stone is found nearer to it than seven or eight miles. Its present situation is on the sands in the httle bay near Castle-Stuart, on the Moray Frith; and as it is left entirely dry by every receding tide, it is easily approached over the sands at low water. It is about five feet high at its most ele- vated pomt, calculating from the surface of the sand, and being to all appearance about one foot imbedded in it. In its horizontal diameters it measures nearly six feet in one way, by nearly seven in the other; its weight being about eight tons. This large mass of stone is remarkable for having been removed from a situation which it formerly occupied, about 260 yards farther to the , by natural means, and in the course of one night, to the position where it now stands. This remarkable circumstance took place on the night between Friday the 19th and Satur- day the 20th February 1799. There had been a long-continued and severe frost; and the greater part of the little bay had been for some time covered with ice, which was probably formed there the more readily, owing to the quantity of fi-esh water from the stream running near Castle-Stuart emptying itself into this' inlet of the sea. The stone was, by means of a projecting ledge all around it, bound fast by a vast sheet of ice, of 18 inches in thickness; and when the influx of the tide took place it was floated in the direction above described, and left in its present situation, the wmd having blown with great violence in that direction. Alexander Macgillivray, of the Sea Mill of Petty, witnessed the fact of the stone being removed, and was the first to discover its absence next morning after it took place. This storm was accompanied by a heavy fall o
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