[68: In his reviewal of Pitcairn's _Trials_ (1831), Scott says: "In erecting this Earl's Castle of Scalloway, and other expensive edifices, the King's tenants were forced to work in quarries, transport stone, dig, delve, climb, and build, and submit to all possible sorts of servile and painful labor, without either meat, drink, hire, or recompense of any kind. 'My father,' said Earl Patrick, 'built his house at Sumburgh on the sand, and it has given way already; this of mine on the rock shall abide and endure.' He did not or would not understand that the oppression, rapacity, and cruelty, by means of which the house arose, were what the clergyman really pointed to in his recommendation of a motto. Accordingly, the huge tower remains wild and desolate--its chambers filled with sand, and its rifted walls and dismantled battlements giving unrestrained access to the roaring sea blast."--For more of Earl Patrick, see Scott's _Miscellaneous Prose Works_, vol. xxi. pp. 230, 233; vol. xxiii. pp. 327, 329.] [69: Mr. W. S. Rose informs me, that when he was at school at Winchester, the morris-dancers there used to exhibit a sword-dance resembling that described at Camacho's wedding in Don Quixote; and Mr. Morritt adds, that similar dances are even yet performed in the villages about Rokeby every Christmas.] [70: This is a solitary island, lying about halfway between Orkney and Zetland.] [71: An American Commodore.] [72: Mr. Marjoribanks.] [73: _Thalaba_, Book VIII.] CHAPTER XXIX DIARY ON BOARD THE LIGHTHOUSE YACHT CONTINUED. -- THE ORKNEYS. --KIRKWALL. -- HOY. -- THE STANDING STONES OF STENNIS, ETC. 1814