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| Brough of Mousa {Continued] | 063. | [continued from page] 88 The sound edifice attains the height of 42 feet, bulging out below and tapering off towards the top, where it is again cast out from its lesser diameter, like a dice box. So as to prevent its being scaled from without. " Andersons Guide to the Highlands") "On the right is the low-lying and comparatively flat pastoral island of Mousa, upwards of a mile in length. Formerly inhabited, it is now used only as a grazing isle; but yet it lays Claim to national importance, as being the site of the most perfect Pictish Castle or burgh extant The towers is circular in form, about fifty feet in diameter and attains a height of fifty-two feet. It is built of a sort of slatey stones of considerable and partly uniform size well laid together without the air of Cement. In elevation it resembles a dice-box. (Corries Shetland and its inhabitants") The east end of Mousa is a low overhanging Cliff named the Bard of Mousa, with several triangular stacks lying at its base; by this feature the island may readily be known when sighting it in thick weather. An ancient pcitish Towers stands on a low point on the west side of the island. ("North Sea Pilot. |
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