There is a precipice on the west side of Kenavara hill called Mac-a-Bhriuthainn’s leap (_Leum Mhic-a-bhriuthainn_) which one of this sept of Browns is said to have jumped across backwards, and which no one has since jumped either backwards or forwards. The one who took the jump is said to have been chased by a wild ox, which pushed him over the hill, and if he had not been a man of steady eye and limb, the fall would have ended in sure destruction. The place where he leapt was a ledge in the face of a precipice where the slightest overbalance or weakness, would have precipitated him several hundred feet into a dangerous and deep sea. No trained tightrope dancer ever required more sureness of eye and limb than must have been brought into action in this leap. In the top of the same hill (Kenavara) there is a well, Briuthainn’s Well (_Tobar Mhic-a-Bhriuthainn_), which is said to have its name from the first who came to the island having, in his wanderings, subsisted on its water and wild water-cress. THE STORY OF MAC-AN-UIDHIR. The name Mac-an-Uidhir is not borne by any person now living, so far as the writer is aware. Like many other names it may have been changed into MacDonald, or some other clan-name. When a person changed his name to that of some other clan, or powerful chief, he was said to accept the name and clanship (_Ainm ’sa chinneadhdas_). This name must, at one time, however, have been common. The ford between Benbecula and South Uist is called “The ford of the daughter of Euar” (_Faoghail Nic an Uidhir_), and Nic-an-Uidhir is also named by the Lochnell bard as a sister of Headless Stocking (_Cas-a’-Mhogain_), a well-known witch, who lived so long ago as when Ossian the poet was a boy (_giullan_). “Did ever you hear mention Of Rough Foot-gear daughter of Euar? She was young in Glenforsa, When Ossian was a young boy; She was going about as a slip of a girl With Headless Stocking her sister. I am a wretched creature after them Not knowing what became of them.” (“An cuala sibhse riamh iomradh Mu Chaiseart Gharbh, Nic an Uidhir? Bha i òg an Gleann Forsa Nar bha Oisean ’na ghiullan; Bha i falbh ’s i ’na proitseach Le Cas-a’-Mhogain a piuthar. ’S mise an truaghan ’nan déigh ’S gun fhios gu de thainig riu.”)