this couple of calves, and I am but weak.  Where shall I go with them?’ ’Thou shalt go with them to that breast down yonder.  Thou wilt see a tuft of grass.  If thy couple of calves eat that tuft of grass, thou wilt not be a day without a milk cow as long as thou art alive, because thou hast taken my counsel.’

     “As she said, she never was without a milk cow after that, and she
     was alive fourscore and fifteen years after the night that was
     there.”

[Illustration:  PLATE VII.

GROUND PLAN OF BOTHAN GEARRAIDH NA H’AIRDE MOIRE, UIG LEWIS, HEBRIDES.

a.  Dwelling apartments.

b.  Fosgarlan or Porch.

c.  Cuiltean or Milk cupboards.

d.  Stonebench or Bedplace.

AB.  Line of Section.

CD.  View as represented as restored.]

[Illustration:  PLATE VIII.

SECTION AND ELEVATION OF BOTHAN GEARRAIDH NA H’AIRDE MOIRE, UIG,
LEWIS, HEBRIDES, AND VIEW OF SAME IF RESTORED.]

PLATES VII.  AND VIII.—­"Agglomeration of Bee-Hives” at Uig,
Lewis.

(From Plates XV. and XVI. of Vol.  III. of Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, First Series.)

“By far the most singular of all these structures, and probably unique in the Long Island, is at Gearraidh na h-Airde Moire, on the shore of Loch Resort.  I cannot describe it better than by bidding you suppose twelve individual bee-hive huts all built touching each other, with doors and passages from one to the other.  The diameter of this gigantic booth is 46 feet, and [it] is nearly circular in plan.  The height of the doors and passages about 2-1/2 feet; and under the smokehole (farlos), in two of the chambers, the height was 6-1/2 feet....  I am informed that, so late as 1823, this both was inhabited by four families.” (Captain Thomas, Proc.  Soc.  Antiq.  Scot., vol. iii., p. 139.)

[Illustration:  PLATE IX.

PLAN AND ELEVATION OF A BOTH at Gearraidh Aird Mhor, Uig, Lewis.

a. dwellings.

b. fosgarlan or porch.

c. cuiltean or milk cupboards.

d. doors.

e. farlos or smokehole.

“One of a group of three at the garry of Aird Mhor, close to the shore and near the mouth of Loch Resort, Uig, Lewis.  This compound both has evidently been intended for two related families ... but there is no interior communication between the dwellings.” (Op. cit. p. 144.)]

PLATE IX.—­Compound “Both” situated near the above.

(From Plate XIV. of Vol.  III. of Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland, First Series.)

[Illustration:  PLATE X.

GROUND PLAN AND SECTIONAL VIEW OF SEMI-SUBTERRANEAN BOTH AND
UNDERGROUND GALLERY, MEAL NA H-UAMH, MOL A DEAS, HUISHNISH, ISLAND OF
SOUTH UIST.]