British Animals Extinct Within Historic Times: With Some Account of British Wild White CattleTrübner and Company, 1880 - 258 pages |
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... original Latin MS . from which the translation quoted by Pennant was made ( preserved in the Advocates ' Library , Edinburgh ) shows that the animal killed was a Boar , " immanem aprum . " More- over , the arms of the Gordons happen to ...
... original Latin MS . from which the translation quoted by Pennant was made ( preserved in the Advocates ' Library , Edinburgh ) shows that the animal killed was a Boar , " immanem aprum . " More- over , the arms of the Gordons happen to ...
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... original passage runs thus : " Thar var sithr Jarla naer hvert sumar at fara yfer à Katanes oc thar upp à merkr at veida Rauddyri edr Hreina ; " which is translated by Jonæus as follows : " Solebant Comites quavis fere astate in ...
... original passage runs thus : " Thar var sithr Jarla naer hvert sumar at fara yfer à Katanes oc thar upp à merkr at veida Rauddyri edr Hreina ; " which is translated by Jonæus as follows : " Solebant Comites quavis fere astate in ...
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... original horn , tipped at each end with silver gilt , fitted with wreaths of leather to hang about the neck , with an old brass seal ring , a plate of brass with the sculpture of a horn , and several lesser plates of silver gilt , with ...
... original horn , tipped at each end with silver gilt , fitted with wreaths of leather to hang about the neck , with an old brass seal ring , a plate of brass with the sculpture of a horn , and several lesser plates of silver gilt , with ...
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... original name of the district , but translated into the modern language . Boethius , however , states ( fol . 272 ) that the land in question was given to the See of St. Andrews by Alexander the First about 1124 , and was named " the ...
... original name of the district , but translated into the modern language . Boethius , however , states ( fol . 272 ) that the land in question was given to the See of St. Andrews by Alexander the First about 1124 , and was named " the ...
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... original shows that the animal in question was unmistakably a Boar , * This must have been a splendid pair of tusks . The Roman digit , it should be remembered , was the sixteenth part of a foot ; and these tusks were doubtless measured ...
... original shows that the animal in question was unmistakably a Boar , * This must have been a splendid pair of tusks . The Roman digit , it should be remembered , was the sixteenth part of a foot ; and these tusks were doubtless measured ...
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