This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...who hold that Fergus was the founder, tell us that he built seven towers, like the King of Bohemia; and one historian, to crown all, tells us that Beregonium was destroyed by fire from heaven, a catastrophe which may probably account for so few vestiges of it remaining except a vitrified fort. That there was a place in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...who hold that Fergus was the founder, tell us that he built seven towers, like the King of Bohemia; and one historian, to crown all, tells us that Beregonium was destroyed by fire from heaven, a catastrophe which may probably account for so few vestiges of it remaining except a vitrified fort. That there was a place in Scotland in early times of the name of Beregonium seems highly probable; but it was not on the shore of Loch Etive, but in Ayrshire, about the head of Loch Ryan, --either at Ballantrae, which looks like a corruption of 'Balanree' (a name by which Beregonium is also known), or else at Bargeny, which is farther north. There is, however, no evidence to prove that there was a city or town named Beregonium in Ayrshire; still less is there anything to show that in ages long gone by there was a city on the shores of Loch Etive that bore the name of Beregonium. Pennant, indeed, thinks that such a city may have existed, and been destroyed by a volcano, in proof of which he points to the vitrified fort which still remains; but it is now generally agreed by antiquarians that vitrified forts were the work of art, and not the result of volcanic agency. The ruined fort on the supposed site of Beregonium, and which tradition assigns to Dun Mac Sniochan, is a very good specimen of a vitrified fort, and, like other erections of the same kind in Glen Nevis, the hill of Noth, and Craig Phadric, will likely remain a puzzle to the learned for all time to come. The fort on Loch Nell is situated on a small rocky hill, which forms a kind of island in the plain of a narrow, prolonged shape, and scarped all round except at one point, which affords access to the summit and fort. The height of this hill or rock above the plain is about thirty or forty feet, and is in a m...
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