198 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
Although tame in aspect, and covered with good grass and 
-some heather, the visitor notes the evidence of its storm-swept 
situation in the divisions of the fields all being made with ships’ 
timbers, with the bolts in them in many cases. The little burial- 
place contains, besides the ruins of a chapel dedicated to St. 
Ninian (although the dedication is also claimed for St. Columba 
and St. Adamnan), at least two remarkable stones of great 
antiquity. The first of these to catch the eye is a “ pillar of rude, 
lumpish type, without a vestige of ornament, and roughly shaped 
into the figure of a cross,” and to it ‘‘we might perhaps venture 
to attribute a possible antiquity far exceeding that of the 
adjoining stone building, with its piscina and benitier. Such 
primitive-looking monuments are occasionally to be met with, 
principally in isolated spots, as the remoter western isles, &c. 
They carry the mind back to times when the little cell or oratory 
was constructed of wattles, long ere the réligiewx had time or 
thought to bestow upon the marvellous sculpturings of a later 
medieval age” (Archeological Sketches in Scotland, District of 
Kintyre, by Captain T. P. White. Edin. and London, 1873, 
p. 84). 
The other monument is extremely ornate in character, but the 
corroding tooth of time, and the lichens encrusting its sculpturings, 
have combined to obscure its story, while giving it a new beauty. 
It is a large slab, “seven feet by two,” and a curious feature at 
the intersection of the arms of the cross is a central “ cup-shaped 
hollow, encircled by four similar hollows, one at each angle, the 
five making a pretty pattern of a St. Andrew's Cross.” . . 
“This slab,” Captain White says, “is probably of early type, 
though, as I have remarked, of quite a different class from its 
unadorned neighbour.” 
MAMMALS.—We saw nothing of any land mammal during 
our brief visit, and, according to the lighthouse keepers, the only 
mammal they have is a shrew. Since our return one has been 
received in the flesh by Mr. Hugh Boyd Watt from one of the 
light-keepers. It proves to be the Lesser Shrew (Sorea minutus, 
Linn.), which is the shrew of the Hebrides. 
BIRDS.—In this class the list is headed by the hardy Black: 
bird (Zurdus merula, Linn,), of which several were seen. There 
