FOOTNOTES:
[499] MS. Letter, S.A. Scot., Dec. 1832.
[500] New Statist. Acc. vol. viii. p. 48.
[501] Owen's British Fossil Mammalia, p. 385.
[502] Ibid. p. 397.
[503] MS. Letter, J. Stewart, Libr. S.A. Scot.
[504] MS. Letter, John Smith, Esq. of Swindrigemuir, to John Dillon, Esq., 28th March 1822. Libr. S.A. Scot.
[505] S. A. L. Collection of Drawings, vol. ii. p. 61. I am indebted to the obliging attention of Mr. Albert Way for learning of the existence of these drawings, as well as for sketches, which enabled me afterwards to identify the objects in the collection at Penicuick House. The original drawings are by no means minutely correct.
[506] Archæologia, vol. xiv. p. 90.
[507] New Statistical Account, vol. xii. p. 354.
[508] New Statist. Acco. vol. xii. p. 733.
[509] The excavation extended to a depth of fully thirty-three feet below the highest part of the area included within the reservoir, but at the point referred to in the text the lowest perpendicular depth was about twenty-five feet.
PART IV.
THE CHRISTIAN PERIOD.
"Tantum ergo sacramentum
Veneremur cernui,
Et antiquum documentum
Novo cedat ritui,
Præstet fides supplementum
Sensuum defectui."
S. Thomæ Aquinatis
Hymnus de Corpore Christi.