[Footnote 293: On the left of the view in the Frontispiece.] [Footnote 294: 'Archæologia Scot.' iii. p. 119.] [Footnote 295: 'Archæologia,' xxxiv. p. 113.] [Footnote 296: 'Proceedings Soc. Ant. of Scotland,' iii. p. 213.] [Footnote 297: These dimensions and the plan are taken from Sir Henry James's work on 'Stonehenge, Turuschan,' &c.] [Footnote 298: Anderson, on horned Tumuli in Caithness, 'Proc. Soc. Ant. of Scotland,' vi. p. 442 _et seq._, and vii. p. 480 _et seq._] [Footnote 299: 'Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' ii. p. xxv.] [Footnote 300: Vol. iv. p. 499.] [Footnote 301: Glasgow, 1865, p. 186 _et seq._] [Footnote 302: In the 'Archæologia,' vol. xxii. pp. 200 and 202, are plans and views of six Aberdeenshire circles, and two more are given in the same volume further on.] [Footnote 303: 'Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' vol. i. p. xxi.] [Footnote 304: In September, 1858, Mr. Dyce Nicol, with a party of experienced archæologists, excavated four circles situated in a row, and extending for nearly a mile, on the road from Aberdeen to Stonehaven, and about 1½ mile from the sea. The first and last had been disturbed before, but the second, at King Caussie, and the third, at Aquhorties, yielded undoubted evidences of their sepulchral origin. The conclusion these gentlemen arrived at was, that "whatever other purposes these circles may have served, one use of them was as a place of burial."--_Proceedings Soc. Ant. Scot._ v. p. 134.] [Footnote 305: I regret much that I have been unable to visit this place myself. It was, however, carefully surveyed by Captain Charles Wilson, when he was attached to the Ordnance Survey at Inverness. He also made detailed plans and sketches of all the monuments, but, unfortunately, sent them to the Ordnance Office at Southampton, and they consequently are not accessible nor available for our present purposes.] [Footnote 306: These dimensions are taken partly from the Ordnance Survey Sheet, 25-inch scale, and partly from Mr. Innes's paper in 'Proceedings Soc. Ant.' iii. p. 49 _et seq._] [Footnote 307: _Ibid._ Appendix, vi. pl. x.] [Footnote 308: Reeves, 'Adamnan. Vita St. Columb.' p. 150.] [Footnote 309: Wilson's 'Prehistoric Annals,' p. 332.] [Footnote 310: An amusing controversy regarding the existence of this stone will be found in the 'Proceedings Scot. Ant.' iv. p. 524 _et seq._ It seems absolutely impossible that any man, even under the inspiration of some primordial whisky, to have drawn by accident a sculpture so like what his ancestors did fifteen centuries before his time.] [Footnote 311: Gordon, 'Iter Septemtrionale,' p. 151.]