The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, Том 9W. Creech, 1793 |
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... falls at last into Lochlomond . This river in the winter feason , when the loch is full , covers a great part of the lower grounds on both fides of the parishes of Buchanan and Kilmarnock , and when the water lies dead and goes off ...
... falls at last into Lochlomond . This river in the winter feason , when the loch is full , covers a great part of the lower grounds on both fides of the parishes of Buchanan and Kilmarnock , and when the water lies dead and goes off ...
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... fall to the parish of Buchanan . This beautiful lake , lying from S. to N. has always been reck- oned 24 computed or 36 measured miles in length . The breadth towards the fouth end is from 8 to 10 miles ; to- wards the north end it is ...
... fall to the parish of Buchanan . This beautiful lake , lying from S. to N. has always been reck- oned 24 computed or 36 measured miles in length . The breadth towards the fouth end is from 8 to 10 miles ; to- wards the north end it is ...
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... falls very heavy , and the taking it off , would not only operate as an encouragement to the farmer , but might tend much to the improvement of the country in general . Animals , Birds , & c . - The animals of the wild kind are chiefly ...
... falls very heavy , and the taking it off , would not only operate as an encouragement to the farmer , but might tend much to the improvement of the country in general . Animals , Birds , & c . - The animals of the wild kind are chiefly ...
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... fall , but others in general have been built in lieu of them . The number of inhabited houses is about 224 , and the number of persons at an average to each inhabited house , is between 4 and 5 . in Manufactures , & c . - The following ...
... fall , but others in general have been built in lieu of them . The number of inhabited houses is about 224 , and the number of persons at an average to each inhabited house , is between 4 and 5 . in Manufactures , & c . - The following ...
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... fall very heavy on the poorer fort , by reason of the additional tax on that article , all to the north of the Red Head , a promontory near Arbroath . It is hoped the Legislature will be in- duced to abolish this very partial and ...
... fall very heavy on the poorer fort , by reason of the additional tax on that article , all to the north of the Red Head , a promontory near Arbroath . It is hoped the Legislature will be in- duced to abolish this very partial and ...
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Стр. 324 - Ihey kept on their bonnets and caps during the lecture and sermon, and took them off only during the prayer, the singing of psalms, and the pronouncing the blessing. Few or none of the common people could read, and the precentor read the scriptures to them in church before the minister made his appearance.
Стр. 325 - ... manner. The tenants' wives wore toys of linen of the coarsest kind upon their heads when they went to church, fairs, or market. At home, in their own houses, they wore toys of coarse plaiding. The young girls, linen mutches, with a few plaits in them above their foreheads, when they went abroad, to the church, or to fairs, or market. At home they went bareheaded, with their hair snooded back on the crown of their head, with a woollen string in the form of a garter. Their houses were the most...
Стр. 75 - Bargarren ; and by means of it they were enabled to conduct their manufacture with more regularity, and to a greater extent. The young women in the neighbourhood were taught to spin fine yarn ; twining mills were erected ; correspondences were established ; and a profitable business was carried on. Bargarren thread became extensively known ; and being ascertained by a stamp, bore a good price.
Стр. 329 - They were strangers to every complaint of a nervous nature. This arose from the hardy manner in which they were brought up from their infancy, and being accustomed to watch their cattle without doors in the night during the whole summer and harvest season.
Стр. 326 - Each person in the family had a short hafted spoon made of horn, which they called a munn, with which they supped, and carried it in their pocket, or hung it by their side. They had no knives and forks, but lifted the butcher meat they ate with their fingers. They ate little meat at that time excepting the off-falls of their flocks, which died either by poverty or disease. At Martinmas they killed an old ewe or two, as their winter provision, and used the sheep that died of the braxy in the latter...
Стр. 301 - ... lay than in the duties of the text, ' To fear the Lord, and the king, and not to meddle with them that are given to change.
Стр. 90 - The south window is much admired for its height and curious workmanship. Niches are on each side and above it, in which have been statues of our Saviour and apostles. Besides these, there are many other figures on the east and west sides of this window : monks with their beards, cowls, and beads ; a cripple on the back of a blind man ; several animals carved very well, as boars, greyhounds, lions, and others. There are ab.iut 68 niches, in the whole, standing : the statues were only demolished about...
Стр. 324 - ... and the pronouncing the blessing. Few or none of the common people could read, and the precentor read the Scriptures to them in church before the minister made his appearance. They had no buckles in their shoes, but tied them with small leather thongs ; had no metal buttons on their clothes, but large clumsy buttons of wood moulds, covered over with the same cloth as the coat. The men wore kelt coats...