Miscellanea Scotica: I. Life of Archbishop Sharp. Donald Munro's ... Description of the Western Isles. II. Martin's Voyage to St. Kilda. Buchanan's Chamæleon. III. Account of the murthoure of King James I. of Scotland. Supplement to the feuds and conflicts of the clans. Buchan's Description of St. Kildasold, 1818 - Scotland |
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... solan geise are in this ile . 101. THE HORSE IYLE . Be foure of sea toward the southeist , layes ane little ile , half ane myle lang , callit by the Eriche Ellan - naneache , that is in Eng- lishe the Horse ile , guid for horse and ...
... solan geise are in this ile . 101. THE HORSE IYLE . Be foure of sea toward the southeist , layes ane little ile , half ane myle lang , callit by the Eriche Ellan - naneache , that is in Eng- lishe the Horse ile , guid for horse and ...
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... with a prodigious number of solan geese hatching in their nests ; the heavens were darkened by their flying over our heads , their excrements were in such quantity , that they gave a tincture to the sea , and at the same ST . KILDA .
... with a prodigious number of solan geese hatching in their nests ; the heavens were darkened by their flying over our heads , their excrements were in such quantity , that they gave a tincture to the sea , and at the same ST . KILDA .
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... Solan geese take wing ; if they neglect this piece of foresight , one windy day may disappoint them of five , six , or seven thousand Solan geese , which this rock affords yearly . They are so very numerous here , that they cannot be ...
... Solan geese take wing ; if they neglect this piece of foresight , one windy day may disappoint them of five , six , or seven thousand Solan geese , which this rock affords yearly . They are so very numerous here , that they cannot be ...
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... Solan geese are allowed to hatch their first eggs , but it is not so in the rocks next to be described ; and that for this reason , that if all were allowed to batch at the same time , the loss of the product in one rock would at the ...
... Solan geese are allowed to hatch their first eggs , but it is not so in the rocks next to be described ; and that for this reason , that if all were allowed to batch at the same time , the loss of the product in one rock would at the ...
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... Solan geese and other fowl ; here are several stone pyra- mids , as well for lodging the inhabitants that attend the seasons of the Solan geese , as for those that preserve and dry them . The sea rises and rages extremely upon this rock ...
... Solan geese and other fowl ; here are several stone pyra- mids , as well for lodging the inhabitants that attend the seasons of the Solan geese , as for those that preserve and dry them . The sea rises and rages extremely upon this rock ...
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Andrews betwixt bishop boat brethren Briew called callit castle Cathnes church Church of Scotland Clandonald clepid Colmkill corne countrey Covenant Craile deth Earle eggs Erishe Erll fowls Fulmar Gigay grete guid for fishing haffe myle haid hath impostor inhabit and manurit island isle isle of Harries iyle iyle layes James Sharp Kilda king Kingis Kintaill Kyng laiche Laird land Laxay Lewes Lewis Lord Lordis lyes lyes ane ile Majesty maney minister myle braid myle lange myle of sea namit Narrest nest Niell northeist officer Pabay pairt parchement paroche kirke perteining to M'Cloyd Prelacy prelatic Presbytery Quene Quenis quher quhilk rock says Scalpay Scotland Sharp sheep shuld Sir Robert Grame slayne Solan geese sone sould steward stone thair thare thay therein thereof thing thir thought Tormot Torq Torquill traitours twa myle tyme unto uther water loche western isles Wormiston ynto
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Page 22 - Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her.
Page 82 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Page 1 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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Page 24 - ... breast, ie a bare spot from which the feathers have fallen off with the heat in hatching; its egg is twice as big as that of a Solan goose, and is variously spotted, black, green, and dark...
Page 114 - Stuarts of Bute's blood, callit Mr. James ; he and his bluid are the best men in that countrey. In Arran is a loche callit Lochrenasay, with three or four small waters : two paroch kirks, the ane callit Kilbride, the uther callit Kylmure.
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Page 10 - Lavy, and a greater number of the lesser eggs, as they differed in proportion ; the largest of the eggs is near in bigness to that of a goose, the rest of the eggs gradually of a lesser size. We had the curiosity, after three weeks...
Page 25 - ... that such big houses of stone were made with hands; and for the pavements of the streets, he thought it must needs be altogether natural, for he could not believe that men would be at the pains to beat stones into the ground to walk upon. He stood dumb at the door of his lodging with the greatest admiration; and when he saw a coach and two horses, he thought it to be a little house they were drawing at their tail, with men in it; but he condemned the coachman for a fool to sit so uneasy, for...
Page 129 - ... part of the parochin being upon the mayne shoar of Mull, being onlie ane half myle distant from the said ile, and the haill parochin of it pertains to the prioress of Colmkill.