Maclagan, Robert Craig · London, For the Folk-lore Society by D. Nutt · leaf 26
AM BUAILE LE AON DORUS ii which he describes a square sufficient for one person to stand in. From a point in this square he starts a continuous line in a spiral form, at about a foot interval, reaching as far as the width of the floor will allow. The feat is to walk from the out- side point, which… … The above is a very small matter compared with the feat of balancing described in Martin's ^^ St. Kilda/' as a proof of skill and manhood by young men about to marry. We quote from the original (Martin's ^^ Voyage to St. Kilda," 4th edition, 1753). Page 61. ^^ In the Face of the Rock, South from…
