A little beyond this Den, is a ſmall Lake, in the midſt of which, is a huge Stone, on which, formerly ſtood a Croſs: round this Lake the Fairies are ſaid to celebrate the Obſequies of any good Perſon; and I have heard many People, and thoſe of a conſiderable Share of Underſtanding too, proteſt, that in paſſing that way they have been ſaluted with the Sound of ſuch Muſick, as could proceed from no earthly Inſtruments.
So ſtrongly are they poſſeſs'd of the Belief that there are Fairies, and ſo frequently do they imagine to have ſeen and heard them, that they are not in the leaſt terrified at them, but on the contrary, rejoice whenever viſited by them, as ſuppoſing them Friends to Mankind, and that they never come without bringing good Fortune along with them.
But it is not ſo with thoſe Beings which bear the Names of Ghoſts: As many of them as are imagined to haunt the Wilds of this Iſland, their Frequency does not at all abate the Dread ſuch Apparitions ordinarily occaſion in Perſons
