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beast of pasture were numerous. When the goats, chased by the sanguinary pursuit of the wild animals, their vain fled was to the above rock as a place of refuge. One would be apt to conceive at northward distant, that the highest part of the foresaid rock in apparition of yielding westward in curious existence.

Stuich-achroin is a famous wild rock laying adjacent westward to Bein-vourlich, from which her easter point opposite to Bein-vourlich, a most curious rising pinnacle, or sharp elevation, to a great extent higher than the rest of her lamented, perphery, external, orbicular limits; which sharp pinnacle coming in so gradually that its several sides meets in one at the highest point, which its apparition at distant is an object of curiosity existing in wild resemblance, an amazement excavated of ground between those rocks, goes onward of rising ground, to the highest surface of its edge. That part of its edge equally distant between the two extremities of Stuich-a-chroin and Bein-vourlich, falcated or in an arcurate existence. From which arcutatious medium, is a rising edge eastwardly to the articulation of Bein-vourlich, which is in the same posture westwardly from