Nor will any one deny there can be a Place more proper for a Hermit, becauſe here are no Temptations to allure him from his Cell, but he may paſs his Nights and Days entirely uninterrupted; and as there are ſtill many of thoſe pious Men in the World, it muſt be thro' Ignorance of this Iſland, that none of them made choice of it at preſent: I ſay at preſent, becauſe I have been ſhewn a hole on the ſide of a Rock near Kirk-Maroan Mountains, which, they ſay, was formerly the Habitation of one who had retired from the Converſe of Mankind, and devoted himſelf intirely to Prayer and Meditation.
What ſeems to prove this Conjecture is not without foundation, is, that there is ſtill to be ſeen a Hollow, cut out on the ſide of the Rock with a round Stone at one End in the ſhape of a Pillow, which renders it highly probable to have been the hard Lodging of one of thoſe holy Perſons who have foregone all the Gaieties and Pleaſures of Life, and choſe to mortify the Body for the ſake of the Soul.
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