Horum alteri
scilicet Peti parvo superantes pigmeos statura in structuris urbium
vespere et mane mira operantes, meredie vero cunctis viribus prorsus
destituti in subterraneis domunculis pre timore latuerunt._"--From his
treatise _De Orcadibus Insulis_, reprinted in the "Bannatyne
Miscellany," 1855, p. 33.]]
[Footnote 52: _Testimony of Tradition_, pp. 58-60, 65, 67-74, 79-80.]
[Footnote 53: Pennant's Second Tour in Scotland; Pinkerton's _Voyages_,
London, 1809, p. 368.]
[Footnote 54: Linguae Romanae, Dictionarium, Luculentum Novum.]
[Footnote 55: Du Chaillu: _Land of the Midnight Sun_, vol. ii. pp.
421-2. This also is one of the articles of belief in Shetland, with
regard to the _trows_, as the trolls are there called.]
[Footnote 56: _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. of Scot_. (First Series), vol.
iii. pp. 127-144; vol. vii. pp. 153-195.]
[Footnote 57: _The Past in the Present_, Edinburgh, 1880, pp. 58-72.]
[Footnote 58: _The Past in the Present_, p. 59.]
[Footnote 59: Reproduced by permission of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland.]
[Footnote 60: _Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._, vol. iii. p. 137.]
[Footnote 61: _Proc.
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