[Footnote 52: _Testimony of Tradition_, pp. 58-60, 65, 67-74, 79-80.] [Footnote 53: Pennant's Second Tour in Scotland; Pinkerton's _Voyages_, London, 1809, p. 368.] [Footnote 54: Linguæ Romanæ, Dictionarium, Luculentum Novum.] [Footnote 55: Du Chaillu: _Land of the Midnight Sun_, vol. ii. pp. 421-2. This also is one of the articles of belief in Shetland, with regard to the _trows_, as the trolls are there called.] [Footnote 56: _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. of Scot_. (First Series), vol. iii. pp. 127-144; vol. vii. pp. 153-195.] [Footnote 57: _The Past in the Present_, Edinburgh, 1880, pp. 58-72.] [Footnote 58: _The Past in the Present_, p. 59.] [Footnote 59: Reproduced by permission of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.] [Footnote 60: _Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._, vol. iii. p. 137.] [Footnote 61: _Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._, vol. vii. p. 168 _n._ This appears to me to be a phonetic spelling of the _diongna_ mentioned in the passage relating to the plunderings of the Danes in the ninth century.] [Footnote 62: _Ibid._ p. 171. On the same page, the form _Ugh talamkant_ is given.] [Footnote 63: _Chambers's Encyclopædia_, new ed., s.v. Earth-house.] [Footnote 64: Quoted in _Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._, vii. 172. The reference is "Ag. Rep. Heb. p. 782."] [Footnote 65: _Op. cit._ vol. iii. p. 140.] [Footnote 66: John Stuart, LL.D., _Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._, viii. pp. 23 _et seq._] [Footnote 67: Plates XIV.-XVI. Compare also Plates XVII.-XIX.] [Footnote 68: _Op. cit._, vii. 191.] [Footnote 69: _Op. cit._, iii. 133.] [Footnote 70: _Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland_, vol. iii. (First Series), p. 129. The district of Barvas is specially referred to by Captain Thomas.] APPENDIX. Most of the illustrations here given are reproductions of some of the plates accompanying Captain Thomas's papers in the _Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland_. In explanation of their details the following extracts may be made. PLATE I. (Frontispiece).--_Uamh Sgalabhad, South Uist._ (From Plate XXXV. of Vol. VII. of _Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland_, First Series.)