Therefore was the plain sacred and untilled, unfurrowed by the plough of any husbandman, nor hardened by his industrious spade. NO farmer gathered there corent or glaisin or rue, nor reaped his ?axen harvest but the immense plain lay, from age to age, a pure and undese crated soil, and there pious meetings were held around the grave of Uta by his people, and there rude parliaments of the princes of the Clan Uta, and there warlike congregations.