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MacRitchie, David, 1861-1925

"Fians, Fairies and Picts"

The bo'h, or Pict's house, as it would be called in the
Orkneys--but the name is unknown in the Long Island--that I am
about to describe lies less than half a mile above the shepherd's
house; but so little curiosity had that individual that he was
entirely unacquainted with it; and I believe it would never have
been found by us but for a little terrier (in its etymological
sense, of course) of a daughter. The child was only acquainted with
the two here drawn [of which the other--viz., _Uamh Sgalabhad_, is
here reproduced as Plate I., frontispiece]; but there may be many
more waiting the researches of the zealous antiquary." (Captain
Thomas, _op. cit._, p. 165.)

[Illustration: PLATE XIII.
GROUND PLAN AND ENTRANCE OF UNDERGROUND GALLERY AT PAIBLE, TARANSAY,
HARRIS.
"The drawing is from a photograph of the entrance, which is 2 feet 10
inches high and 1-1/2 foot broad. The sea flows up to it at high
tides."]
PLATE XIII.--_Underground Gallery at Paible, Taransay, Harris._
(From Plate XXIX. of Vol. VII. of _Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland_, First Series.


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