The Quarterly Review, Volumes 256-257William 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 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 . generations he has confined himself to the post - office ... 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 . generations he has confined himself to the post - office ... ST KILDA , PAST AND PRESENT.
Page 148
... 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 letters to be handed to her agent , Hope of ...
... 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 letters to be handed to her agent , Hope of ...
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