[1] [figure appears here on page 190] THe people lykewyſe doubting for want of a go|uernor to be ye ſooner ouercom by their eni|mies,Ethus. ledde the ſayd Ethus vn+to Sc [...]ne wher they crowned him king, in the yeare after the byrth of our Sa|uiour 874. and the .xiij.874 after Conſtantine began to rule the eſtate of the realme. The ſame yeare were many wonders and vnketh ſightes ſeene [page 191] within the Scottiſh dominions. In the mouth of the Forth,Fiſhes like vn|to men in ſhape. otherwiſe called the Scottiſhe ſea, there appeared fiſhes in great number, like vnto men in ſhape, ſwimming vp and downe in the ſtreame with halfe their bodies aboue the water, and hauing a blacke ſkinne, which couered theyr heades and neckes, from the ſhoulders vpwardes like an hoode.Baſsinates. Theſe are called Baſſinates, and vſe to goe in great companies togither, as though they were ſkulles of Herrings, ſignifying when they are ſeene, ſome great miſfortune vnto [...] Countrey, as the common people haue long [...] an opinion. Alſo the Loches, Riuers, and al ma|ner of other waters were frozen from the begyn|ning of Nouember,A long winter. till the latter ende of April, and when the froſt brake, and the ſnowes melted, there was ſuch a flood flowing ouer al the plaines euen to the rootes of the Mountaynes, as the like had not bene ſeene. Furthermore when the ſame ſhrunke and went away,Frogges in the mud and ſlime in the mud and ſlime there was ſuche a number of Frogges left, that when they were dead, & began to putrifie, the ayre was ſo infected, ye many deadly diſeaſes enſued wherof great nũbers of the inhabitants did periſh.