The Scottish Antiquary: Or, Northern Notes & Queries, Volumes 15-17T. and A. Constable, 1901 - Scotland |
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Page 185 - Every isle differs from each other in their fancy of making plads, as to the stripes in breadth and colours. This humour is as different through the mainland of the Highlands, in so far that they who have seen those places are able, at the first view of a man's plad, to guess the place of his residence.
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Page 107 - ... of the water was wanting, they might use the rampart to defend their borders from the irruptions of the enemies. Of which work there erected, that is, of a rampart of extraordinary breadth and height, there are evident remains to be seen at this day. It begins at about two miles...