told all to his wife and children; his stepdaughter, who came in just before him, said, as that morning had a raw frost, the voice which he heard must be that of a fox, to cause dogs run after to give him heat: no, child, said Alexander, it is my spirit or ghost, and I will never set a foot on green grass more. This was seen verified, his disease increasing so fast and violent upon him, that in eight or ten days he departed this life, and the mourning of his wife, children, and friends, accompanied his corpse from the door to the shore, (about a quarter of a mile,) where it was put in the boat to be interred at Killmuir.

ELIZABETH DINGWALL,

daughter to the above Alexander, a child about five years old, as she was washing her face and hands, beginning of harvest last, cried out to her mother, saying, see, mother, the house is on fire: her mother and all the family looking that way, could see no such thing; she reproved the child for surprising them with lies; but the child still persisted in her affirmation. In less than two hours thereafter, a neighbouring women coming in with some shingles of barley to be dried on the small kiln, that stood under the very place where the child saw the house on fire, soon set both kiln and house in a flame, which they soon extinguished: and at the same time verified the child's vision, within two hours after she saw it.

DONALD MACKINNON,

an honest tenant in Halistra in Waternish, relates,

that in harvest 1760, in the dusk of the evening, as he was binding and putting together corn, on the sudden he saw a neighbour of his foremost, and followed by a pretty throng gathering of people, carrying a corpse directly through a standing corn field of his own, which he was not well pleased at; however, through fear that it might be a vision, he did not chuse to challenge his neighbour. He told what he had seen to his wife and family when he came home, saying, if it was a vision it would undoubtedly be verified ere long; and, to satisfy his mind concerning what he had seen, went early next morning to view the standing corn, to see if any of it was trode down, but not one stalk. About the same time next year, he saw his neighbour, the company, and corpse in reality, coming through the same field from Grishirnish, to bury it at the churchyard of Trumpan.

The said Donald relates, that spring last, as he was refining Aqua Vitæ at Halan, he went out of the brew-house in the gloaming, in order to draw water; no sooner had he set out his head, than he saw a throng company, with a corpse on a bier, at the distance of a musket-shot; as they drew nearer him, he imagined to have heard them speaking together, but could not discern distinct words. He saw one man at a pretty good distance before the rest; and when they came to the little rivulet that runs by the side of the brew-house, he knew the foremost man to be Neil MacLeod ground-officer. He ran in with great fear, nor waiting to do what he went out for; and as he was drawing his water

in the house, the people within asked him why he did not p-s without; he told them what he had seen and heard put him in that fright. Just eightdays thereafter a woman died at Risagan, (about a quarter of a mile's distance,) pretty suddenly, and her corpse was carried with all the circumstances above-narrated, Niell MacLeod, officer, keeping the distance, as seen, half-way to the churchyard.

ALEXANDER MACLEOD,

in lower Halan, (a discreet modest young man,) narrates, that in winter last, as he was sitting alone in the brew-house taking notice to the working of his ale, and boiling his small beer, as he looked to one of the working-stands, he saw a corpse full stretched on a dale, on the mouth of said vessel, in its winding-sheet. This sight put him into great fear, so that he went out in order to get the company of some person to stay with him for that night: no sooner he had set his head out of the door, than he heard a voice making great moaning; he listened thereto so long that he imagined he knew the person whose voice it was; he immediately turned into the house again, as knowing all the people were asleep a while before that time of night next day he told what he had seen and heard to severals, but concealed the person's name; yet said, he was sorry it would prove true ere long. Very soon thereafter, an honest, discreet, pious woman in the neighbourhood, contracted the bloody flux whereof she died, and the Aqua Vita of that very brewing was that used at her funeral. The

said Alexander then confessed he knew it was her voice he heard.

A soldier that belonged to Colonel Campbell's Highland regiment, (formerly and now my servant,) informed me, that there lives in a town which he named Linkirk, in the Prussian territories, an old man, a shoemaker by trade, who, for the course of three years running, saw frequently, by the Second Sight, a corps of men in a very strange garb, marching under arms, with banners displayed, and music which he never heard the like of, towards their town; and that, upon the said regiment's approach to that place, with drums beating, pipes playing, and colours flying, the shoemaker, upon hearing the pipes, threw by his work, ran to the street, crying out, that was the music he had so often heard; and upon seeing the men, told these that were in company," These are the strangers of uncommon dress, and this the music that I have so often heard these three years bygone; and will, I doubt not, much contribute to bring about a speedy peace." My informer heard the man speak, but as he did not understand his language, the pay-master of his corps explained what the Seer said to him and many others of the men. My informer, who has no temptation to lie, frequently saw the Seer, heard him talk of his vision, and several of the inhabitants bearing testimony to his prediction, as was explained to my informer.

John MacColgan, who lived in Husebost, some

years ago, coming on a visit to Hammer, was invited to stay there that night; having gone off next day, an old Seer, who had come accidentally to the family, told Mrs. MacLeod, she would have no more visits from the said gentleman, as she had seen him, the preceding night, covered over with his winding-sheet, almost to the crown of his head. In less than a quarter of a year he went to Edinburgh, to consult for a chronical ailment he had in his leg, for which, being put under salivation, the cure did not succeed, so that in a few days he departed this life, thereby verifying the prediction before he set out on his journey.

In spring last, a poor young boy, of a singular disposition to piety, far beyond his years, according to the testimony of all that knew him, was with his aunt, a blind woman, on the island of Bernera in Harris, and being lodged with one Donald MacKenzie, who then had severals in his family lying under a bloody flux, which was then epidemic in that country, at night as the boy sat with the domestics, he turned sickly and pale; whereupon he went out of the house; and when he returned, being asked if he was well? said he was, but that he saw a little corpse stretched on the landlord's knees; which sight, being to him uncommon, gave him such a fright as made him withdraw; and after he had gone out, observed a gathering at the door with a little coffin, which they carried to a spot at a little distance, where they set it on a bier; and that he stuck his stick in that spot, to know if the event would corres