Ossian Collection > Journey to the western islands of Scotland

^^6 A JOURNEY TO THE
gone. It is about fixty feet in length, and
thirty in breadth. On one fide of the altar
is a has relief of the blefled Virgin, and by
it lies a little bell ; which, though cracked,
and without a clapper, has remained there
for ages, guarded only by the venerable-
nefs of the place. The ground round the
chapel is covered with grave-ftones of
Chiefs and ladles ; and ftill continues to be
a place of fepulture.
Inch Kenneth is a proper prelude to
IcolmkilL It was not without fome
mournful emotion that we contemplated
the ruins of religious ftrudures, and the
monuments of the dead.
On the next day we took a more diftind
view of the place, and went with the boat
to fee oyfters in the bed, out of which the
boat-men forced up as many as were want-
ed. Even Inch Kenneth has a fubordi-^
nate Ifland, named Soiidiland^ I fuppofe,
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