Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . HISTORICAL AND DESfKIITIVE NOTICKS. 57 On a later occasion, June 15th, 1881, Mr. Wilson, writingon the same subject, says:— In the volume of the Pro-ceedings for 1879-80, at pages 127-129, I have describedseven of these stones, and have stated that only one speci-men has been reported from any other part of Scotland. 1now direct attention to eleven more from Glenluce andStony Kirk added to the Museum, making eighteen fromWigtownshire. ^ (See notice of another, found on the cran-
Ancient Scottish lake-dwellings or crannogs : with a supplementary chapter on remains of lake-dwellings in England . HISTORICAL AND DESfKIITIVE NOTICKS. 57 On a later occasion, June 15th, 1881, Mr. Wilson, writingon the same subject, says:— In the volume of the Pro-ceedings for 1879-80, at pages 127-129, I have describedseven of these stones, and have stated that only one speci-men has been reported from any other part of Scotland. 1now direct attention to eleven more from Glenluce andStony Kirk added to the Museum, making eighteen fromWigtownshire. ^ (See notice of another, found on the cran-uog in Lochspouts, at page 173.) One of the crannogs referred to by Mr. Wilson, viz., tliatin Loch Inch-Cryndil, or Black Loch, was about the sametime subjected to a careful examination, a report of whichwas drawn up by Charles E. Dalrymple, Esq., Scot.{Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. vol. ix. p. 388), from which I quote thefollowing illustrative extracts :— The island is oval in shape, 180 feet long, and 135feet broad in the widest part. It has tolerably deep waterround it, excepting towards the nearest sho
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