Note 316 — Chapter VII · THE TRIBAL SYSTEM (continued).
Reading edition
Compare description of Irish houses in Dr. Sullivan's Introduction, cccxlv. et seq., with the Venedotian Code. Ancient Laws, &c., of Wales, p. 5, s. vi.—'Of Appropriate Places.' Compare also the curious resemblances in the structure of stone huts in the Scotch islands where trees could not be used, and especially the position of the beds in the walls or in the rough aisles.—Mitchell's Past in the Present, Lecture III. Compare Dr. Guest's description of the Celtic houses. Origines Celticæ, ii. 70–83.