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In Martin's time the population of 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 ...
In Martin's time the population of 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 ...
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They may now play havoc with 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 post ...
They may now play havoc with 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 post ...
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She made several attempts to escape from St Kilda , which Island she described in one of her letters , still extant , as ' a neasty , vile , stinking , poor ile . ' When the catechist was leaving St Kilda in 1741 , she gave him certain ...
She made several attempts to escape from St Kilda , which Island she described in one of her letters , still extant , as ' a neasty , vile , stinking , poor ile . ' When the catechist was leaving St Kilda in 1741 , she gave him certain ...
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ART PAGE 1 The Freedom of England | 1 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 256 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1931 |
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