Google Books have a free downloadable PDF of Martin Martin's "A description of the Western Islands of Scotland."
http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=pHdbA ... t=acs_help
Martin Martin, Free PDF.
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Incidently. I loved Mr J Toland's page of handwritten text & comments from 1720. He'd be at home in the lounge on TOP.
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Re: Martin Martin, Free PDF.
And if you don't want to have to sign into Google and have them monitoring into your reading habits (Martin Martin can be a be a wee bit racy), there's an HTML version at www.appins.org/martin.htm.
Re: Martin Martin, Free PDF.
Thanks that's way better, text is better than a scan.Shard wrote:And if you don't want to have to sign into Google and have them monitoring into your reading habits (Martin Martin can be a be a wee bit racy), there's an HTML version at www.appins.org/martin.htm.
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An account of the Second-Sight, was quite interesting to say the least.
Would the Poteen have anything to do with it
seeing as it was the basis of the saying "Blind Drunk"
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Would the Poteen have anything to do with it


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