llustration: PLATE VIII.

SECTION AND ELEVATION OF _BOTHAN GEARRAIDH NA H'AIRDE MOIRE_, UIG,
LEWIS, HEBRIDES, AND VIEW OF SAME IF RESTORED.]

PLATES VII. AND VIII.--_"Agglomeration of Bee-Hives" at Uig,
Lewis._

(From Plates XV. and XVI. of Vol. III. of _Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland_, First Series.)

"By far the most singular of all these structures, and probably
unique in the Long Island, is at Gearraidh na h-Airde Moire,
on the shore of Loch Resort. I cannot describe it better than by
bidding you suppose twelve individual bee-hive huts all built
touching each other, with doors and passages from one to the other.
The diameter of this gigantic booth is 46 feet, and [it] is nearly
circular in plan. The height of the doors and passages about 2-1/2
feet; and under the smokehole (_farlos_), in two of the chambers,
the height was 6-1/2 feet.... I am informed that, so late as 1823,
this _both_ was inhabited by four families." (Captain Thomas,
_Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._, vol. iii., p. 139.)

[Illustration: PLATE IX.

PLAN AND ELEVATION OF A BOTH _at Gearraidh Aird Mhor, Uig, Lewis._

_a. dwellings._

_b. fosgarlan or porch._

_c. cuiltean or milk cupboards._

_d. doors._

_e. farlos or smokehole._

"One of a group of three at the garry of Aird Mhor, close to the shore
and near the mouth of Loch Resort, Uig, Lewis. This compound _both_ has
evidently been intended for two related families ... but there is no
interior communication between the dwellings." (_Op. cit. p. 144._)]

PLATE IX.--_Compound "Both" situated near the above._

(From Plate XIV. of Vol. III. of _Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland_, First Series.)

[Illustration: PLATE X.

GROUND PLAN AND SECTIONAL VIEW OF SEMI-SUBTERRANEAN _BOTH_ AND
UNDERGROUND GALLERY, MEAL NA H-UAMH, MOL A DEAS, HUISHNISH, ISLAND OF
SOUTH UIST.]

PLATE X.--_"Both" and Underground Gallery at Meall na h-Uamh,
Huishnish, South Uist._

(From Plate XXXIII. of Vol. VII. of _Proceedings of the Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland_, First Series.)

"I have next to notice," says Captain Thomas (_op. cit._, p. 164),
"that form of bo'h, Pict's house, or clochan, whichever name may be
adopted by archaeologists, to which a hypogeum or subterranean
gallery is attached.... [The present example] is in South Uist,
about half a mile inland from Moll a Deas (South B