,¥ X E ! ^ F f i O l B J H J O T , K A .,C A I J L I L I (C H U S ’ « K T E
K fould grind the famen. A n d in this cafe g i f a man grindes at
hand mylnes, he fal g i f the threttein meafure as multer, and g i f
K anie man contraveins this our prohibition, he fall tine his hand
I* mylnes perpetuallie.’
| W a lk u p B einn-a-caillich, or, the hill o f the old h a g ; one o f
|thofe picturefque mountains that made fuch a figure from the fea.
After afcending a fmall part, find its fides covered with v ait loofe
Atones, lik e the paps o f J u ra , the ihelter o f ptarmigans : the top
flat and naked, with an artificial cairn, o f a molt enormous fize,
reported to have been the place o f fepulture o f a gigantic woman
in the days o f F ing al. T h e profpeft to the W e ft was that o f
defolation it fe lf; a favage feries o f ru d e « mountains, difcolored,
black and red, as i f by the rage o f fire. Neareft, joined to this hill
by a ridge, is Beia-an-ghrianan, or the mountain o f the Sun ; perhaps
[venerated in antient times. M al-m ore, or the round mountain,
appeare on the North. T h e ierrated tops o f B la ven afreet with
aftoniihment; and beyond them, the cluftered height o f ifu illin ,
or, the mountain o f C u c h u l l in , like its antient hero *, Jicod like
a h ill th a t catches the clouds o f heaven. T h e deep recedes between
jhefe A lp s, in times o f old, poflefled the fo n s o f the narrow va les,
the hunters o f deer j and to this time are inhabited by a fine race o f
[flags.
T h e v iew to the N . Eaft and S. W e f t is not k f s am u fin g : a
fea fprinkled o v e r with various ifles, and the long extent o f coaft
(oaring into all the forms o f Alpine wildnefs. I muft not omit
* His refidence is faid to have been at Dunfcaich, in this ifland. The literal
«caning of StuilUn, or Cullin, is a narrow dark hollow.
that