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Rh during a long minority, and no family residing at Lee house.

"The most remarkable cure performed upon a human being was on the person of Lady Baird of Sauchtenhall, near Edinburgh; who having been bit by a mad dog, was come to the length of the hydrophobia; upon which having begged that the Lee Penny might be sent to her house, she used it for some weeks, drinking and bathing in the water it was dipped in, and was quite recovered. This happened about the year 1700; and the fact is very well attested by the Lady of the Laird of Lee at that time; relating also that she and her husband were entertained at Sauchtenhall by Sir Baird and his lady for several days in the most sumptuous manner, on account of the lady's recovery by the Lee Penny.

"N.B. The Lee Penny has been examined by a lapidary, and found to be a stone, but of what kind he could not tell."

The Lady of Lee, so entertained at Sauchtenhall, had not been dead more than thirty years when I saw the Lee Penny. At Lee, I was treated with the utmost politeness by Mrs. Lockhart; and the ceremony of the dipping of the