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... College , where Mr Henderson , the library - keeper , showed us the library : there are many good books in it . Here we saw a horn that grew two inches above a woman's right ear , that We went We saw 1 The Canongate . was eleven inches ...
... College , where Mr Henderson , the library - keeper , showed us the library : there are many good books in it . Here we saw a horn that grew two inches above a woman's right ear , that We went We saw 1 The Canongate . was eleven inches ...
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... College neither regents nor scholars wear any gowns , but they diet in the town , & c . Thursday 31st , being a very wet day , we stayed within . Friday , June 1st . We saw the Castle ; it stands upon a very high rock , and there is but ...
... College neither regents nor scholars wear any gowns , but they diet in the town , & c . Thursday 31st , being a very wet day , we stayed within . Friday , June 1st . We saw the Castle ; it stands upon a very high rock , and there is but ...
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... College , the rest are put to trades . Upon this joins the church called Grey Friars , where round the churchyard we saw abundance of very fine monuments ; and then we saw the Mint.1 Saturday 2nd , we went to Leith , a pretty harbour ...
... College , the rest are put to trades . Upon this joins the church called Grey Friars , where round the churchyard we saw abundance of very fine monuments ; and then we saw the Mint.1 Saturday 2nd , we went to Leith , a pretty harbour ...
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... College . This College is but small and very mean , yet of the oldest foundation ; the regents carried us into their public room for disputations , and he that is to be examined sits upon a black stone in the middle thereof . We were ...
... College . This College is but small and very mean , yet of the oldest foundation ; the regents carried us into their public room for disputations , and he that is to be examined sits upon a black stone in the middle thereof . We were ...
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Peter Hume Brown, Ralph Thoresby, Thomas Kirk. and last College , St Leonard's ; it is like the rest . I observed nothing remarkable . The students in all the three Colleges wear red gowns ; the regents have black , almost such as our ...
Peter Hume Brown, Ralph Thoresby, Thomas Kirk. and last College , St Leonard's ; it is like the rest . I observed nothing remarkable . The students in all the three Colleges wear red gowns ; the regents have black , almost such as our ...
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