Fillan, a little worm o f Jura, fmall as a thread and not an inch ij
length, like the Furia, infinuates itfelf under the ikin, caufes a rednefj
and great pain, flies fwiftly from part to part; but is curable by]
poulticeof cheefe and honey.
After dinner walk down to the found o f Iky, and vifit the littlj
iiland o f Fruchlan, near to the Ihore, and a mile or two from the]
Eaftern entrance. On the top is a ruined tower o f a fquare form L
with walls nine feet thick ; on the Weft fide the rock on which iJ
ftands is cut through to a vaft depth, forming a fofs over which had I
been the drawbridge. This fortrefs feemed as if intended to guardl
the mouth o f the found; and was alfo the prifon where the Mu-]
donalds kept their captives, and in old times was called the cattle of]
Claig.
Ride along the ihore o f the found j take boat at the ferry, and go]
a mile more by water : fee on the Jura fide fome Jhedins or fummeij
huts for goatherds, who keep here a flock o f eighty for the fake of]
the milk and cheefes. The laft are made without fait, which they]
receive afterwards from the alhes of fea-tang, and the tang itfelfj
which the natives lap it in.
Land on a bank covered with iheelins, the habitations of foitii I
peafants who attend the herds o f milch cows. Thefe formed a I
grotefque groupe; fome were oblong, many conic, and fo low that I
entrance is forbidden, without creeping through the little opening)
which has no other door than a faggot of birch twigs, placed j
there occafionally : they are conftrufted o f branches of trees,
Covered with fods ; the furniture a bed of heath, placed on a bank
o f fod; two blankets and a ru g ; lome dairy veflels, and above,
certain pendent Ihelves made o f balket work, to hold the cheefe,
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