Can't locate Private folder to delete files

After getting a warning that my startup disk was almost full, I discovered that the reason was one very large folder that contained most of the contents of a previous computer. I had put it there three years ago when I bought this MacBook and forgotten all about it. The folder showed up on the left side of the finder and on the desktop. I put both icons in the trash and emptied it. The folders disappeared but the disk remained almost full.
Disk Inventory X tells me that I now have 129 GB in a folder called Private. Inside that folder, Var contains the 129 GB, then Log has 126.6 GB, and finally system.log.1 (89.1 GB) and system.log.0 (35.7 GB) are the apparent culprits. I don't know how I can have 124.8 GB of messages, but given that the hard disk has a capacity of 150 GB, this is obviously the reason it is still almost full. Somehow my deletion of this morning seems to have generated a mass of log messages in its wake.
But how to erase them? I can't find any hint of their existence in Finder or Spotlight.

I've solved this. After I posted I followed a suggested item that came up on the right of the screen and discovered all I had to do was *Go to Folder*. Type /private/var/. This led me to the rogue files (which in fact were not created today, but recently) and delete them.
Of course, I don't know what created them in the first place, so I may not be out of the woods yet.

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