NUMBER V. OF CATHNESS, STRATHNAVER, AND SUTHERLAND; By the Rev. Mr. ALEXANDER POPE, Minister of REAY. AS S the Pits poffeffed the Northern parts of Scotland of old, as they did the most fertile parts of the South, and were expelled in the year 839, we have very little of their history: what preferves the remembrance of that people is only the round buildings wherein they dwelt, of which there are numbers over all the North, particularly Sutherland, Cathness, and Orkney. It is obfervable in these buildings, that there is no mortar of any kind, neither clay nor lime; nor had they any notion of cafting an arch. They confift of the best stones they could find, well laid and joined; the wall was fometimes 14 feet thick, and the great room, which was quite round, 22 feet diameter; the perpendicular wall 12 feet high; and the roof was carried on round about with long ftones, |