Note 300 — Chapter IV · A BOAR-HUNT.

Pennant saw in the island of Rum (1769) the Quern or Bra in use, and “instead of a hair sieve to sift the meal, they have an ingenious substitute, a sheep’s skin stretched on a hoop, and bored with small holes, made with a hot iron.” “Singing at the quern” was then out of date, the lairds compelling them to grind at his mill, and the miller being empowered to break the querns wherever he found them.