[122] Borlase, p. 177, Plate XIV.
[123] Archæol. Scot. vol iii. p. 122.
[124] Eyrbiggia Saga. Abstract Illust. of Northern Antiquities, p. 479.
[125] Sir Walter Scott speaks of this ceremony as confined to the lower classes, at the time of his writing the "Pirate;" but this is contradicted by the statement of Dr. Henry, and there is every reason to believe that it had fallen at a much earlier period into disuse.
[126] Archæol. Scot. vol. i. p. 263.
[127] Sinclair's Statist. Acc. vol. xvii. p. 235.
[128] Peterkin's Notes on Orkney, p. 21.
[129] Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, vol. i.
[130] Pyramids of Gizeh, vol. i. p. 54.
[131] The Menai tubes, composed of wrought-iron plates, measure each 1524 feet in length, and the weight of the whole is estimated at 10,540 tons. This enormous structure had to be raised a height of 100 feet, and thrown over an arm of the sea 1100 feet in width, and navigable by the largest ships.