 | Electronic journals - 1868 - 564 pages
...three hundred chuse the polished stones." This passage is thus explained in a note by M'Pherson: — "The ancient manner of preparing feasts after hunting...tradition. A pit lined with smooth stones was made ; near it stood a heap of flat stones of the flint kind. The stones as well as the pit were properly... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1868 - 582 pages
...three hundred chuse the polished stones." This passage is thus explained in a note by M'Pherson: — "The ancient manner of preparing feasts after hunting...tradition. A pit lined with smooth stones was made ; near it stood a heap of flat stones of the flint kind. The stones as well as the pit were properly... | |
 | William Owen Stanley - 1871 - 170 pages
...three hundred chuse the polished stones." This passage is thus explained in a note by M'Pherson : — " The ancient manner of preparing feasts after hunting is handed down by tradition. A Ireland, anterior to the Norman Inva- s Having examined a great many huta sion; pp. 124, 126. See also... | |
 | Alexander Wallace - Ericaceae - 1903 - 298 pages
...Miscellaneous Uses One of the other uses to which Heather was put is described by the translator of Ossian : "The ancient manner of preparing feasts after hunting...smooth stones was made; and near it stood a heap of stones of the flint kind. The stones as well as the pit were properly heated with heath. Then they... | |
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The ancient manner of preparing feasts after hunting, is handed down by tradition. A pit lined with smooth stones was made; and near it stood a heap of smooth flat stones of the flint kind. The stones as well as the pit were properly heated with heath.... 
