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ACCOUNT OF ANTIQLaTJES IN SCOTLAND. 



Continued from p. 141. 

 ^. Vjircular buildings, consisting of walls compo- 

 sed of stones firrrily bedded on one another, without 

 any cementing matter, usually called duns. 



Of these J have seen many, more or lefs entire, 

 some of which have been able to withstand the rava- 

 ges of time for many centuries, even in the most ex- 

 posed situations, where they have also been liable tp 

 dilapidations of various sorts. None that I have 

 seen are probably half their original heiglit ; but I 

 have heard of others much more entire, some of which 

 ■to this day are not lefs than forty-five feet in height. 

 It appears that all these structures, when entire, 

 Tiave resembled in some measure one of our modern 

 glafs houses ; being of a circular form, wider at the 

 base than the top, thoiigh there is ho reason to be- 

 lieve that they ever tapered so much as the glafs 

 houses do, or were so narrow at top, which, like 

 itlie other, was •'always open. 



