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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    28/88 (page 22)
    , / [ 22 ] pofe; feme of the Inhabitants of St. Kilda who happened to be in the Iile that Day were Spec¬ tators of this Diverfion, and were offended at it, being done without their Confent; they therefore devifed an Expedient, which at once robbed the Seamen of their Eggs and the Breeches; ’twas thus: They found a few loofe Stones in the Super¬ ficies of the Pvock, fome of which they let fall down perpendicularly above the Seamen, the Ter¬ ror of which obliged them quickly to remove, abandoning both Breeches and Eggs for their Safety; and the Tarpawlin Breeches were no fmall Ornament in a Place where all wore Girded Plaids. About two Leagues and a Half to the North of St, Kilda, is the Rock Stack-Ly, two hundred Paces in circumference, and of a great heighth, being a perfect Triangle turning to a Point at the Top; it is vifible above twenty Leagues diftant in a fair Day, and appears blue; there is no Grafs nor Earth to cover it, but fometimes per¬ fectly White with Solan Geefe fitting on and about it. One would think it next to impoflible to climb this Rock, which I exprefied, being very near it; but the Inhabitants allured me it was practicable, and to convince me of the Truth of it, they bid me look up near the Top, where I per- „ ceived a Stone Pyramid-houfe, which the Inha¬ bitants built for lodging themfelves in it in AugujK at which time the Seafon proves inconftant there; this obliges the Inhabitants in point of Pru¬ dence to fend a competent Number of thofetowhofe fliare the Lot falls; thefe are to land on this Rock fome Days before die Solan Geefe take Wing ; if