A Journey to the Western Islands of ScotlandA. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1791 - 384 ページ |
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... lately reprinted in Mr. Bofwell's Tour to the Hebrides : " The Authour of the Journey to the " Western Islands , having related that the " Macleods of Rafay acknowledge the chief- σε ་ tainship , or fuperiority , of the Macleods of Sky ...
... lately reprinted in Mr. Bofwell's Tour to the Hebrides : " The Authour of the Journey to the " Western Islands , having related that the " Macleods of Rafay acknowledge the chief- σε ་ tainship , or fuperiority , of the Macleods of Sky ...
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... lately fo much neglected , that every man carried away the ftones who fancied that he wanted them . The cathedral , of which the foundations . may be ftill traced , and a small part of the wall is ftanding , appears to have been a ...
... lately fo much neglected , that every man carried away the ftones who fancied that he wanted them . The cathedral , of which the foundations . may be ftill traced , and a small part of the wall is ftanding , appears to have been a ...
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... lately diffolved by the fale of its buildings and the appropriation of its revenues to the profeffors of the two others . The chapel of the alienated college is yet ftanding , a fabrick not inelegant of external structure ; but I was ...
... lately diffolved by the fale of its buildings and the appropriation of its revenues to the profeffors of the two others . The chapel of the alienated college is yet ftanding , a fabrick not inelegant of external structure ; but I was ...
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... lately , went always armed , and carried their weapons to visits , and to church . Mountaineers are thievish , because they are poor , and having neither manufactures nor commerce , can grow richer only by robbery . They regularly ...
... lately , went always armed , and carried their weapons to visits , and to church . Mountaineers are thievish , because they are poor , and having neither manufactures nor commerce , can grow richer only by robbery . They regularly ...
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... lately as in the last years of King William , a battle was fought at Mull Roy , on a plain a few miles to the south of In- verness , between the clans of Mackintosh and Macdonald of Keppoch . Col. Macdo- nald , the head of a fmall clan ...
... lately as in the last years of King William , a battle was fought at Mull Roy , on a plain a few miles to the south of In- verness , between the clans of Mackintosh and Macdonald of Keppoch . Col. Macdo- nald , the head of a fmall clan ...
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