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of July, before the council, after fixteen years of age, to find caution
or otherwqyes if they be denounced for their failzy, declaring them
to be intercommuned, and that none refort or affift them ; and the
adt conftitutes feveral juftices in thatpart againft them.
In 1661, this aft was refcinded ; butrevived again in the firft par*
lement of W'.lliam and Mary, and the adt reciifory annulled. Abridgment
of A iiso f Parliament, 45. I think that the adt has lately been*
wholly repealed.
After the publication of the third edition-of my Tour'of 1769,,
the Rev. Mr. Pope of Re ay favored me with fome drawings of the
circular buildings attributed to the Pi ¿is, and defcribed by him. in-
his account of Cathnefs and the neighboring parts.; I refer the reader
to page 3 . 1 8 of that volume,, for the defcription ; and ihall add fome
explanation of the two annexed plates,, taken from that gentleman’s,
iketches.
Figure 1. in table XLVI. reprefents the fedtion of an entire building.
The thicknefs o f the wall is about fourteen feet; the diameter
of the area about twenty two; the height to the fpring of the arch,
twelve.
Figure 2. in the fame plate,, is the ground-plot,with a; view of the
entrance ; and of eight lodging-rooms of an oval form in the middle.
of the wall.
Figure 1, in plate XLVII. ihews a double houfe of the fame
kind in the valley of Loth,
Figures 2-, and 3, are what are ftyled forefiy or hunting houfes.; for
they are fuppofed to have been ufed by the antient inhabitants for
retreats in the hunting countries. They confift of a gallery,, with a
number of fmall rooms on the fidcs, each formed of three large
ftones,.