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across the top some 22' back from the S. [South] extremity
(Coles (Antiq. [Antiquaries] Feb. [February] 1893) gives some references.).

9th. May 1912

A fine warm day after a wet night. Bi:
:cycled to Creetown where I had to wait half
an hour for my assistant whose bicycle had
broken down on the way. My first endeavour was
to find Adam Birrell to whom I had been referred
and who had given me information and
offered assistance. He was a salmon net fisher
and I found him down at his nets on the
mud flats left by the ebbing tide, a little
wiry man with a bronzed face, a frank
independent manner and a keen active
mind anxious to gather information on
any subject. He had won a humane soci:
:ety's medal on the occasion of the burning
of a motor launch off Roscarrel Point a few
years ago when he swam in his clothes
two miles to the shore for help and was
thus instrumental in saving the life of
a young laird, the only survivor of the party
besides himself. He was a keen Antiquary
an observer of wild birds, parish councillor
and Sergeant Major of Territorials.
Arranging to meet him at his house at
Burnfoot near Carsluith at 2.0 I made for

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