[256] Ars Nova et Magna Gravitatis et Levitatis. In a subsequent work, entitled Hydrostatical Experiments, Sinclair described a kind of diving-bell of his own invention, which he called an Ark.
[257] Archæologia Scot., iv. 437.
[258] Works of Dr Alexander Pennecuik, p. 178.
[259] The grandfather of the celebrated David Hume.
[260] The distance is seventeen miles.
[261] A Short Account of Scotland. Published in London in 1702.
[262] Sir Walter Scott, Letters on Demonology, p. 323. Sir Walter attributes the anecdote to a generation too late.
[263] See under November 1665.
[264] See under February 1589-90.
[265] Fountainhall’s Decisions, i. 113.