Ecclesiological Notes On Some of the Islands of Scotland
Ecclesiological Notes On Some of the Islands of Scotland
Thomas Scott Muir
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Columbas ; it has an altar in the cast end, and there is a blue stone of a round form on it, which is always moist. It is an ordinary custom, when any of the fishermen are detained in the isle by contrary winds, to wash the blue stone with water all round, expecting thereby to procure a favourable wind, which the credulous tenant living in the isle says never fails, especially if a stranger wash the stone. The stone is like- wise applied to the sides of people troubled with stitches, and they s...ay it is effectual for that purpose. And so great is the regard they have for this stone, that they swear decisive oaths on it. " Of the burying -grounds and chapel there is now scarcely a trace. The largest of the other islets is that called by Martin lord Cruin, a rugged and very precipitous rock of considerable height, with, says he, " only one place that is accessible by climbing, and that only by one man at a time. " The ascent is not just very difficult in most part, though at one place it is so steep that I had to be dragged up by my men.
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