A voyage to St. Kilda. The remotest of all the Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland ... To which is added an account of Roderick, the late impostor there, pretending to be sent by St. John Baptist with new revelations and discoveries / By M. Martin, Gent.

  • Martin, Martin, -1719.
Date:
1753
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Credit: A voyage to St. Kilda. The remotest of all the Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland ... To which is added an account of Roderick, the late impostor there, pretending to be sent by St. John Baptist with new revelations and discoveries / By M. Martin, Gent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [i6 ] are feveral other Traditions concerning this fa¬ mous Amazon. But I (hall trouble my Reader with no more of them. In this I fie are plenty of excellent Foun¬ tains or Springs; that near the Female Warrior’s Houfe is reputed the heft: It is calledTou-bir-nim- beii)\ importing no lefs than the Well of Quali¬ ties or Virtues; it runs from Eaft to Weft, being fixty Paces Afcent above the Sea : I drank of it twice, an Englifi Quart each time ; it was very clear, exceeding cold, light and diuretic; I was not able to hold my Hand in it above a few Minutes for its Coldnefs; the Inhabitants of Harries find it effectual againft Windy-C holies, Gravel, and Head-aches; this Well hath a Cover of Stone. There is a very large Well near the Town, called Si. Kilders Well; from which the Ifland is fuppofed to derive its Name ; this Water is not inferior to that above-mentioned ; it runs to the South-Eaft from the North-Weft. There is another Well within half a Mile of this, named after one Conirdan, an hundred Paces above the Sea, and runs from North-Weft towards the South-Eaft, having a Stone Cover. Within twelve Paces of this is a fmall excellent Fountain, which thofe of Harries and St. ■Kb-Ida will needs call by the Author’s Name, and were then refolved to give it a Cover of Stone, inch as is above deferibed. There is a celebrated Well i-flUing out of the Face ot a Rock on the Nprth-fide of the Eaft Bay, called the Well of Youths but is only accef- fible by the Inhabitants, no Stranger daring to climb the fteep Rock; the Water of it is received, as it falls, into the Sea ; it runs towards the South- Eaft.