**A Copy of a Letter, written to myself by a Gentleman’s Son in
      Straths-pey in Scotland, being a Student in Divinity, concerning
      the Second-sight.

Sir,

I am more willing than able to satisfy your desire:  as for instances of such a knowledge, I could furnish many.  I shall only insert some few attested by several of good credit yet alive.

And, first, Andrew Macpherson, of Clunie in Badenoch, being in sute of Lord of Gareloch’s daughter, as he was upon a day going to Gareloch, the Lady Gareloch was going somewhere from her house within kenning to the road which Clunie was coming; the Lady preceiving him, said to her attendants, that yonder was Clunie, going to see his mistress:  one that had this second-sight in her company replied, and said, if yon be he, unless he marry within six months, he’ll never marry.  The Lady asked, how did he know that ? he said, very well, for I see him, saith he, all inclosed in his winding-sheet, except his nostrils and his mouth, which will also close up within six months; which happened even as he foretold; within the said space he died, and his brother Duncan Macpherson this present Clunie succeeded.  This and the like may satisfy your fourth query, he seeing the man even then covered all over with his dead linens.  The event was visibly represented, and as it were acted (before his eyes) and also the last part of your second query, viz. that it was as yet to come.  As for the rest of the questions, viz.  That they discover present and past events, is also manifest, thus:  I have heard of a gentleman, whose son had gone abroad, and being anxious to know how he was, he went to consult one who had this faculty, who told him, that that same day five o’clock in the afternoon his son had married a woman in France, with whom he had got so many thousand crowns, and within two years he should come home to see father and friends, leaving his wife with child of a daughter, and a son of six months age behind him:  which accordingly was true.  About the same time two years he came home, and verified all that was fore-told.

It is likewise ordinary with persons that lose any thing, to go to some of these men, by whom they are directed; how, what persons, and in what place they shall find it.  But all such as profess that skill, are not equally dexterous in it.  For instance, two of them were in Mr. Hector Mackenzie, minister of Inverness, his father’s house; the one a gentleman, the other a common fellow; and discoursing by the fire side, the fellow suddenly begins to weep, and cry out, alas ! alas! such a woman is either dead, or presently expiring.  The gentlewoman lived five or six miles from the house, and had been some days before in a fever.  The gentleman being somewhat better expert in that faculty, said; no, saith he, she’s not dead; nor will she die of this disease. 0, saith the fellow, do you not see her all covered