a six-foot man is perfectly common, and many are above that height.  It is quite certain that such men could not “nest like sand-martins” in the holes in the wall described by Captain Thomas.  And, in proportion as such Galloway men are to the modern Hebridean mound-dwellers, so are these to the much more archaic race with whom the oldest structures are associated.  For a study of the dimensions of these will show that they could not have been conceived, and would not have been built or inhabited by any but a race of actual dwarfs; as tradition says they were.

[Footnote 18:  “La legende des Pygmees et les nains de l’Afrique equatoriale”:  Rev. Hist. t. 47, I. (Sept.-Oct. 1891), pp. 1-64.]

[Footnote 19:  For some of these references see Dr. Hibbert’s “Description of the Shetland Islands,” Edinburgh, 1822, pp. 444-451.  See also Mrs. J.E.  Saxby’s “Folk-Lore from Unst, Shetland” (in Leisure Hour of 1880); Mr. W.G.  Black’s “Heligoland”, 1888, chap. iv.; and “The Fians,” London, 1891, pp. 2-3.]

[Footnote 20:  Gwynn the son of Nudd:  for whom see Lady C. Guest’s “Mabinogion,” pp. 223, 263-5, and 501-2.]

[Footnote 21:  “The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill,” edited by J.H.  Todd, D.D., London, 1867, pp. 114-115.]

[Footnote 22:  I. cc. 4-6 (this reference and the passage is quoted from Du Chaillu’s “Viking Age,” vol. ii. p. 516).]

[Footnote 23:  “Fianaibh ag Sithcuiraibh”]

[Footnote 24:  “Dan an Fhir Shicair”; Leabhar na Feinne, pp. 94-95.]

[Footnote 25:  Folk-Lore Journal, vol. vi. 1888, pp. 173-178.]

[Footnote 26:  The Fians, 1891, p. 64.]

[Footnote 27:  Ibid. p. 33.]

[Footnote 28:  The Fians, p. 172.  The Fairy Hill referred to is “a hillock, in which there is to be seen a small hollow called the armoury” (p. 174).]

[Footnote 29:  Ibid. pp. 12-13, 166, &c.]

[Footnote 30:  Ibid. pp. 3-4.  Glenorchy is said to have teemed with Fenian traditions about the early part of this century (Proceedings of Soc. of Antiq. of Scotland, vol. vii. pp. 237-240).]

[Footnote 31:  See my Testimony of Tradition, London, 1890, pp. 146-8; and Pennant’s “Second Tour in Scotland” (Pinkerton’s Voyages, London, 1809, vol. iii. p. 368).]

[Footnote 32:  Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. vii. p. 294, note.]

[Footnote 33:  See, for example, an article on “Scottish Customs and Folk lore,” in The Glasgow Herald of August 1, 1891.]

[Footnote 34:  The Fians, pp. 78-80.]

[Footnote 35:  Scottish Celtic Review, 1885, pp. 184-90:  The Fians, pp. 175-184.]

[Footnote 36:  The Heimskringla:  Dr. Rasmus B. Anderson’s 2nd ed. (1889) of Mr. Samuel Laing’s translation from Snorre Sturlason:  chap. lxxxiii., Of Little Fin.]