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In a fide chapel, beneath an arch, lies an abbot, of the name f t
Mac-dufie, with two of his fingers elated, in the attitude of benedi J
tion : in the fame place is a ftone enriched with foliage, a ftao- r‘l
rounded with dogs, and a lhip with full fa il: round is infcribel
hie jacet Murchardus Mac-dufie de Collonfa, An. Do. i 5, g
wart, ora wie ille. ammen. >
, This Murchardus is faid to have been a great opprefibr, and thi
he was executed, by order of the Lord of the iiles, for his tyrannl
ear his tomb is a long pole, placed there in memory o f the enfigl
ftaffof the family, which had been preferred miraculoufiy for t J
hundred years: on it (report fays) depended the fate o f the A f j l
dufian race, and probably the original perilhed with this mJ
chardus. 1
Adjoining to the church is the cloifter: a fquare o f forty- one f e l
one o f the fides of tffe inner wall is ruined \ on two o f the others a l
feven low arches, one feven feet high including the column*, wMcl
are nothing more than two thin ftones *, three feet high, with a flaf
ftone on the top o f each, ferving as a plinth, anion them t i l
other thin ftones, meeting at top, and forming an acute a n g le i*
way of arch: on the fore-fide are five fmall round arches f tiiei*
furround a court of twenty eight feet eight inches. Thisformil
peculiar (in our part of Europe) to this place; but I am rold that theft
fame is obferved in fome of the religious houfes in the iflands ofth|
Archipelago.
Several other buildings join this, all in. a ruinous ftate; but. a]
ic lx ST 0f thefe thCre iS a" infCril,ti0n' Which WaS but by feme acci j