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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    [ ly ] i| Eaft. The Taile of the Water of thofe Wells j was fo agreeable to me, that for feveral Weeks I after, the belt Fountains in the adjacent Ifles feemed to have loft their Rclifli. There is a Ri- i vulet running clofe by the Town, and another 1 larger beyond Kilders Well; this laft ferves fc>r 'I wafting Linnen, which it does as well without Soap, as other Water with; of this we had Ex¬ perience, which was a Confirmation of what had been reported to us concerning this Water: We : fearched if in the Brinks we could difcover any Fullers-Earth, but found none; we dilcovered fome Pieces of Iron-Ore in feveral places; this ! Rivulet drops from the Molly Ground in the top | of the Hills. 1 The whole Hland is one hard Rock, formed t into four high Mountains, three of which are in j the middle; all thinly covered with black or i brown Earth, not above a Foot, fome places half a foot deep; except the top of the Hills, where it is above three Foot deep, and affords them j g°od Turf; the Grafs is very ftort but kindly, producing plenty of Milk; the number of Sheep 1 commonly maintained in St. Kilda, and the two : adjacent Ifles, does not exceed Two thoufand, ! and generally they are fpeckled, fome White’ fome Philamort, and are of a common fize; they J do not relemble.Goats in any refpedt, as Buchanan \ was informed, except in their Horns, which are extraordinary large, particularly thofe in the lef- i fer Ifles. The number of Horfes exceeds not Eighteen, all of a Red Colour, very low, and fmooth Skin¬ ned, and are employed in carrying Turf and Corn, and at their Anniverfary Cavalcade, of which here-