The great
thickness of the walls, 6 to 8 feet, gave this door, or passage of
communication, the look of a tunnel, and made the creeping through it
very real. The creeping was only a little less real in getting through
the equally tunnel-like, though somewhat wider and loftier passage,
which led from the open air into the first or dwelling room."[73]
[Footnote 72: _Op. cit._, p. 161.]
[Footnote 73: _The Past in the Present_, p. 60.]
[Illustration: PLATE III.
BEE-HIVE HOUSES, FIDIGIDH IOCHDRACH, UIG, LEWIS, HEBRIDES. Inhabited
1859.]
PLATE III.--_Bee-Hive Houses at Uig, inhabited in 1859._
(From Plate XII. of Vol. III. of _Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland_, First Series.)
See p. 47, _ante_.
[Illustration: PLATE IV.
BEEHIVE-HOUSES (BOTHAN) MEABHAG, FOREST OF HARRIS.]
PLATE IV.--_Bee-Hive Houses at Meabhag, Forest of Harris._
(From Plate X. of Vol. III. of _Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland_, First Series.)
At the date of Captain Thomas's visit (1861) a man was still living who
had been born in one or other of these dwellings.
[Illustration: PLATE V.
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