The Quarterly Review, 256–257. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1931 |
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Page 134
... St Kilda are puzzling and contradictory . There is little doubt , how- ever , that for a very long time it has been the property of MacLeod of MacLeod . There is a tradition current in the Western ... ST KILDA , PAST AND PRESENT.
... St Kilda are puzzling and contradictory . There is little doubt , how- ever , that for a very long time it has been the property of MacLeod of MacLeod . There is a tradition current in the Western ... ST KILDA , PAST AND PRESENT.
Page 137
... St Kilda was 180 souls . So the Islanders must have been particularly fond of gannets toward the close of the seventeenth century . Authorities on bird - life have all noted the very marked increase in the number of fulmars on St Kilda ...
... St Kilda was 180 souls . So the Islanders must have been particularly fond of gannets toward the close of the seventeenth century . Authorities on bird - life have all noted the very marked increase in the number of fulmars on St Kilda ...
Page 138
... St Kilda's long - tailed field - mouse , and its own particular house - mouse , the mus muralis . The latter is a unique variety of the domestic mouse . For generations he has confined himself to the ... ST KILDA , PAST AND PRESENT.
... St Kilda's long - tailed field - mouse , and its own particular house - mouse , the mus muralis . The latter is a unique variety of the domestic mouse . For generations he has confined himself to the ... ST KILDA , PAST AND PRESENT.
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