Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1871 to 1900 > Cunntas air boidhicheadan Ceann-Lochearn agus Edinample, or, A description of the beauties of Edinample and Lochearnhead

34 description of S6och Sam
stones in the water, these laying
such a distant from each other, that
it is not probably that any of the
present generation would leap or
jump; hut the aforesaid barbarous
man would stand on one of the stones
already mentioned, withhis theft bur¬
den about his neck, and skip or move
forwardly to the other, without step
or sliding; which jump is a great ob¬
ject of amazement or astonishment to
the beholders that will examine the
distant between the said stones,—
which stones perspicuously to view
to this day. The within-mentioned
barbarous man, for his incoherent
transactions, had his pistol once stan¬
ding in need of being repaired, or to
be restored after injury of dilapidation
which happened in his practical san¬
guinary engagement; at which time
three men arrived to a place that was
not laying a great distant from his