The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, Volume 21

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W. Creech, 1799 - Scotland
 

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Page 162 - X • dom fails of being plentiful, yielding from eight to ten bolls after one. In the year 1767 an agreement was made with one tenant for a portion of the Low Mofs.
Page 146 - Even fire, another relic of Druidism, was kindled in Buchan. Various magic ceremonies were then celebrated to counteract the influence of witches and demons, and to prognosticate to the young their success or disappointment in the matrimonial lottery. These being devoutly finished, the hallow fire was kindled, and guarded by the male part of the family. Societies were formed, either by pique or humour, to scatter certain fires, and the attack and defence were often conducted with art and fury.
Page 481 - The Principal was to teach Theology one day, and Hebrew and Syriac the next alternately, through the week ; and to preach in the church of Govan on Sunday. Of the Regents, one was to teach Greek and Rhetoric ; another, Dialectics, Morals, and...
Page 112 - In this fpire are four windows, placed alternate on the fides, refting on the top of the tower ; near the top of the tower are four others, facing the four cardinal points...
Page 481 - Parliament in the year 1560, brought the University of Glasgow almost to annihilation. The Dignitaries of the Church and Convents, of whom its Doctors and Masters were composed, were no more. The Chancellor, James Beaton, fled to France, and carried with him the plate of the Cathedral, with the Bulls, Charter, and Rights, both of the See and of the University, which he deposited partly in the Convent of the Carthusians, and partly in the Scotch College at Paris, (where they lately were,) to be restored...
Page 145 - The Midsummer Even fire, a relict of Druidism, was kindled in some parts of this county; the Hallow Even fire, another relict of Druidism, was kindled in Buchan. Various magic ceremonies were then celebrated to counteract the influence of witches and demons, and to prognosticate to the young their success or disappointment in the matrimonial lottery. These being devoutly finished, the Hallow fire was kindled, and guarded by the male part of the family. Societies •were formed, either by pique or...
Page 147 - ... did this enforce gratitude to the Supreme Being for a safe delivery ! On the day when such a woman was churched, every family favoured with a call were bound to set meat and drink before her ; and when they omitted to do so, they and theirs were to be loaded with her hunger. What was this but an obligation on all who had it in their power to do the needful to prevent a feeble woman from fainting from want?
Page 166 - Two flukes through which is admitted the water raifed by the wheel. c, c. A part of one of two wooden troughs and an aperture in the wall, through which the above water is conveyed into the buckets. [The other trough is hid by two ftone walls that fupport the wheel.] d, d, d.
Page 338 - ... yet by an early attention to the education ** of youth, to form good men and good citizens , " she has uniformly maintained a high character * This account was written in 1803.
Page 155 - Лотап camp kettle. Between the clay and the moss is found a stratum nine inches thick, partly dark brown and partly of a colour approaching to black. This is a vegetable mould, accumulated probably by the plant« that covered the ground previous to the growth of the.

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