 There were first some rows of trees laid down, in order to level a floor for the habitation ; and as the place was steep, this raised the lower side to an equal height with the other ; and these trees, in the way of joists or planks, were levelled with...  Transactions - Page 310by Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Books - 1802 - 572 pages
...lower side to an equal height xvith the other ; and these trees, in the way of joists or planks, were levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt...interwoven with ropes, made of heath and birch twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather oval shape ; and the whole thatched and covered... | |
 | 1802 - 572 pages
...lower siJe to an equal height with £he other ; and these trees, in the way of joists or plaiiks, were levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt...trees, were interwoven with ropes, made of heath and biich twigs, rp to.the top of the Cnge, it being of a round Or rather oval shape ; and the whole thatclied... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1802 - 572 pages
...lower side to an equal height with the other ; and these trees, in the way of joists or planks, were levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt...trees, were interwoven with ropes, made of heath and bitch. twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather ov.il shape ; and the whole... | |
 | 1802 - 510 pages
...lower fide to an equal ISÎght with the other ; and thefe trees, m the way of joins, or planks, were levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt the trees, growing naturally on their own roots, fome ftakes fixed in the earth, which, with the trees, were interwove«! with ropes, made of heath... | |
 | John Home - Culloden, Battle of, 1746 - 1802 - 456 pages
...lower fide to an •equal height with the other; and thefe trees, in the way of joifts or planks, were levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt the trees, growing naturally on their sown roots, fome flakes fixed in the earth, which, with the trees, were interwoven with ropes, made... | |
 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...lower side to an equal height with the other ; and these trees, in the way of joists or planks, were levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt...interwoven with ropes, made of heath and birch twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather oval shape ; and the whole thatched and covered... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...lower side to an equal height with the other ; and these trees, in the way of joists or planks, were levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt...fixed in the earth, which, with the trees, : were in* terwoven with ropes, made of heath and birch twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round... | |
 | George Charles - Jacobites - 1817 - 492 pages
...lower side to an equal height with the other ; and these trees, in the way of joists or planks, were levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt...interwoven with ropes, made of heath and birch twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather oval shape ; and the whole thatched and covered... | |
 | George Charles (bookseller.) - Jacobites - 1817 - 490 pages
...lower side to an equal height with the other ; and these trees, in the way of joists or planks, were levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt...interwoven with ropes, made of heath and birch twigs, up to the top of the Cage, it being of a round or rather oval shape ; and the whole thatched and covered... | |
 | George Charles - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - 1817 - 496 pages
...lower side to an equal height with the other ; and these trees, in the way of joists or planks, were levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt...interwoven with ropes, made of heath and birch twigs, up to the top of the Cage, k being of a round or rather oval shape ; and the whole thatched and covered... | |
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