Report ... of the state of sheep-farming along the eastern coast of Scotland, and the interior parts of the Highlands. By Andrew Ker. With an appendix, containing an abstract of a paper respecting Shetland sheep, by John Tulloch, a native of Shetland1791 - 44 pages |
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