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... King of arms . By Sheriff Strathern , 206 Memorandum as to objects found in a small tumulus on the lands of Blochairn , Baldernock parish , opened August 4 , 1859. By Alexander Galloway , Esq . , . On the remains of a vitrified fort ...
... King of arms . By Sheriff Strathern , 206 Memorandum as to objects found in a small tumulus on the lands of Blochairn , Baldernock parish , opened August 4 , 1859. By Alexander Galloway , Esq . , . On the remains of a vitrified fort ...
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... King Street , Glasgow . In answer to my question about the site of this shop , Mr. Watt said , " It was in a little court , north end of the Beef Market , the house projects into the court ; I think a carrier occupies it at present ...
... King Street , Glasgow . In answer to my question about the site of this shop , Mr. Watt said , " It was in a little court , north end of the Beef Market , the house projects into the court ; I think a carrier occupies it at present ...
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... King James VI . , King Charles I. and II . , King James VII . , King William and Queen Mary , Queen Anne , King George I. and II . , all in full length , and a fine large oval table where the Magistrates and Town Council and their clerk ...
... King James VI . , King Charles I. and II . , King James VII . , King William and Queen Mary , Queen Anne , King George I. and II . , all in full length , and a fine large oval table where the Magistrates and Town Council and their clerk ...
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... King James , dated 30th November , 1559. A gift to them , under the Privy Seal in 1599 , was ratified by Parliament ... king's troops at the time of the battle of Langside , there can be no doubt . But there is in Dr. Cleland's Annals of ...
... King James , dated 30th November , 1559. A gift to them , under the Privy Seal in 1599 , was ratified by Parliament ... king's troops at the time of the battle of Langside , there can be no doubt . But there is in Dr. Cleland's Annals of ...
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... King William , and also one of the Commissioners of the Treasury . Doubtless , with the view of aiding the cause of the King , his royal Master , he had collected a body of men , under the designation of the Earl of Eglinton's Troop of ...
... King William , and also one of the Commissioners of the Treasury . Doubtless , with the view of aiding the cause of the King , his royal Master , he had collected a body of men , under the designation of the Earl of Eglinton's Troop of ...
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Page 215 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 438 - The first line that Sir Patrick red, A loud lauch lauched he; The next line that Sir Patrick red, The teir blinded his ee. "O wha is this has don this deid, This ill deid don to me, To send me out this time o' the yeir, To sail upon the se!
Page 4 - I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder.
Page 4 - I must get quit of the condensed steam and injection water, if I used a jet as in Newcomen's engine. Two ways of doing this occurred to me. First the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an...
Page 446 - A' for the sake of their true loves ; For them they'll see na mair. O lang, lang, may the ladyes sit, Wi...
Page 459 - But wha will bake my bridal bread, Or brew my bridal ale ? And wha will welcome my brisk bride, That I bring o'er the dale...
Page 440 - O lang, lang may their ladies sit, Wi thair fans into their hand, Or eir they se Sir Patrick Spence Cum sailing to the land. O lang, lang may the ladies stand, Wi thair gold kems in their hair, Waiting for thair ain deir lords, For they'll se thame na mair.
Page 220 - He was a man of middle age ; In aspect manly, grave, and sage, As on king's errand come ; But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating, keen, and sly Expression found its home...
Page 439 - They hadna been a week, a week In Noroway but twae, When that the lords o...
Page 439 - Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm." They hadna sailed a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. The ankers brak, and the topmasts lap, It was sic a deadly storm; And the waves cam o'er the broken ship, Till a