each); and the
Moll is about one mile and a half to the south of Husinish (Husness,
_i.e._, Houseness). The site of the bo'h is called Meall na [h-]
Uamh, or Cave Lump [more correctly, the Mound of the Cave, or
'Weem.'] It consists of a partly excavated oval dwelling chamber
(_a_), 7 feet by 14 feet on the floor; the dome roof has fallen in;
there are two _cuiltean_, or niches in the wall. A low curved
subterranean passage (_b_), about 2-1/2 feet square and 20 feet in
length, leads into an elongated bee-hive chamber (_c_), 13 feet by 5
feet, and 6-3/4 feet high; from thence an entrance (_d_), 2 feet by
2 feet, admits to a small circular chamber or cell (_e_), 5 feet in
diameter and 5 feet high. The main passage inclines downwards, so
that the floor of the second chamber (_c_) is nearly 3 feet lower
than that of the first (_a_); and that of the inner one (_e_) a foot
below the second (_c_)."

[Illustration: PLATE XI.

GROUND PLAN OF _BOTH_ AND UNDERGROUND GALLERY, OR _TIGH LAIR_, NEAR MOL
A DEAS, HUISHNISH, ISLAND OF SOUTH UIST.]

[Illustration: PLATE XII.

RESTORED ELEVATION OF ANCIENT BOTH AND SECTION OF HYPOGEUM OR TIGH LAIR,
ON THE LINE a, k, NEAR MOL A DEAS, HUISHNISH, SOUTH UIST.

"These piers were about 4 feet high, 4 feet to 6 feet long, and 1-1/2
foot to 2 feet broad; and there was a passage of from 1 foot to 2 feet
in width between the wall and them."

"On a small, flattish terrace, where the hill sloped steeply, an area
had been cleared by digging away the bank, so that the wall of the
house, for nearly half its circumference, was the side of the hill,
faced with stone.... The hypogeum or subterranean gallery is on a level
with the floor, pierced towards the hill, and is entered by a very small
doorway [marked _d_ on Ground Plan, Plate XI.].... It is but 18 inches
high and 2 feet broad, so that a very stout or large man could not get
in." (_Op. cit._, pp. 166, 167.)]

PLATES XI. AND XII.--_"Both" and Underground Gallery at
Huishnish, South Uist._

(From Plates XXXIV. and XXXV. of Vol. VII. of _Proceedings of the
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland_, First Series.)

"An ancient dwelling, semi-subterranean, exists at Nisibost, Harris
[and is described in vol. iii. of the _Proceedings_, p. 140].... A
still finer example exists near to Meall na h-Uamh, in South
Uist.... The bo'h, or Pict's house, as it would be called in the