Chapter II: Footnote 56

Rude stone monuments.—FERGUSSON.

Footnote 57:

By the way, it is curious to notice that this word Gilgal is still in
use in Brittany to denote those great tumuli to which many stones were
“rolled.” Such an one for instance as that at the Mont St. Michael,
whereon the Christian Church is said to occupy the very spot where
Bel’s altar once stood.

Footnote 58:

Stennis, “The headland of the stones.”

Footnote 59:

Two ladies who visited these islands with Captain Otter, R.N., in
H.M.’s ships _Shamrock_ and _Rose_, engaged in the Admiralty survey.

Footnote 60:

For most of the details concerning those islands which the author was
unable to visit herself, she is indebted to a series of papers
entitled “Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Outer Hebrides,” which
appeared in the _Leisure Hour_, vol. for 1865.

Footnote 61:

The Saxons who pretend to shudder at our pipe music, quite forget that
the bagpipe was an English musical instrument of very old standing.
Chaucer has recorded of his miller, that “A bagpipe well coude he
blowe and sowne;” and it is further stated that this was the music
which cheered the Canterbury pilgrims on their journey. The instrument
itself is represented on divers old English carvings; such as in a
church at Cirencester, which dates from the time of Henry the Eighth.
It also occupies a prominent place on the organ screen in the chapel
at Magdalen College, Oxford, which represents the celestial choir with
their divers instruments of music. One comfortable-looking angel is
shown working his drone cheerily. This organ screen, though itself
somewhat modern, is copied in all its details from ancient carvings.
The pipes are also found carved in old Melrose Abbey, and on certain
stones in the Orkneys.

Footnote 62:

Shoulder to shoulder.

Footnote 63:

Nevertheless she was probably nearer right than ourselves, inasmuch as
Dean Stanley tells us that Holborn, like Hay Hill, owes its initiatory
H to sheer Cockneyism; the latter denoting the hill where the Aye
Brook once flowed, while the former takes its name from the Old Bourne
(the ancient river), which, rising in High Holborn, formerly ran down
that green hillside. Its once clear waters, like those of all the
neighbouring streamlets, have now been imprisoned and sentenced to
hard labour underground, in purifying sewers. The Dean also quotes the
suggestive names of Langbourne (the long stream), Tyburn (The Aye
Bourne), Mary-le-bone (from St. Mary le Bourne), Southborne, and
Shareborne as reminders of the early days, when these shares, or small
rills, flowed through peaceful meadows; and when ships came up to Old
Bourne Bridge, pausing on their way at Fleet Bridge; strange vision of
a time when the _fleet_, or swift brook, flowed (a silent highway)
where now the stream of busy life surges so noisily, with ceaseless
roar. Apart from this curious change in London’s geography
(above-ground at least) it is interesting to remember that our own
Scotch name for a brook, a _burn_, has so near a relationship to old
English—though I doubt whether many modern Britons ever think of a
river, in connection with “the _bourne_ whence no traveller returns.”

Footnote 64:

The Pholades.

Footnote 65:

Lord Middleton.

Footnote 66:

_The Eriocaulon septangulare._

Footnote 67:

Alexander Smith.

Footnote 68:

Roualeyn Gordon Cumming died at Fort Augustus, March 24th, 1866. Sir
Alexander P. Gordon Cumming only survived his brother five months.

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