The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . --. In point of workman-ship and style of art, therefore, we have no reasonto ascribe to our Runic brooch a foreign evidence equally exposes the fallacy of as-suming a necessary connexion between the disco-very of Runes onourwestern coast andthefatalexpeditionof Kingllaco. Directly opposite to the Ayrshire coast, and within sight of the Bay ofLargs, a small island protects the entrance to Lamlash Bay, in the Isleof Arran, the well-known anchorage where Haco mustered his shat-tered fleet after his overthrow. In the Norwegian acco
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . --. In point of workman-ship and style of art, therefore, we have no reasonto ascribe to our Runic brooch a foreign evidence equally exposes the fallacy of as-suming a necessary connexion between the disco-very of Runes onourwestern coast andthefatalexpeditionof Kingllaco. Directly opposite to the Ayrshire coast, and within sight of the Bay ofLargs, a small island protects the entrance to Lamlash Bay, in the Isleof Arran, the well-known anchorage where Haco mustered his shat-tered fleet after his overthrow. In the Norwegian account of the expo-. SCOTO-SCANDINAVIAN RELICS. uM dition, after the narration of tlic fatal storm and conflict, it is stated, The king- sailed past Kumbrcj (Cumbray) to Melansay, where he laysome nights.^ This Melans ey, or isle, there can be little doubt isHoly Island, in the Bay of Lamlash, which contains the cave assignedby immemorial tradition as the residence of St. Molio or St. Maoliosa,a disciple of Columba, and a favourite Celtic saint. The island corre-sponds in geological structure to the southern district of Arran, pre-senting- along the shore the common red sandstone strata, overflowedby a great mass of claystone and claystone porphyry, which towersabove it in rugged and picturesque cliffs, fringed by the dwarf oakand birch, to a height of about a thousand feet. The cave of St. Moliois little more than a waterworn recess in the sandstone rock at an ele-vation of about thirty feet from the present level of the sea. On tlicslmre below, a circular well is pointed out as St. Molios Bath, and alar
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