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  • " 'Extinct 'Tiny Caddisfly Found at River in Assynt" -- healdine,

    Obama's Vietnam James Taranto 2010

  • Life of Hugh Macleod, Assynt: Embracing a report of his trial at the circuit court, Inverness, on 23rd Sept., 1831, for the murder of Murdoch Grant, pedlar, ... evidence ... and an account of the execution

    JUSTICE OR BLOOD LUST: TOMMY ARTHUR'S CLOSE CALL 2008

  • In those wilds of Assynt and Loch Rannoch, Father, we, thy followers, may yet take trout, and forget the evils of the times.

    Letters to Dead Authors 2006

  • At fi rst he had some success when he moved people from Assynt to the west coast; but later he met with opposition which was repressed by violence, all the more resen ted when it was found that one of the factors employed, who was acquitted on a c harge of homicide, himself entered into one of the sheep farms from which the ev ictions took place.

    Shores of Sutherland 2000

  • Assynt answered, and Vandam asked for Captain Newman.

    The Key to Rebecca Follett, Ken, 1949- 1980

  • Cat the Scots could not then reach, for the Norse held the sea, while on land Pictish Moray, a jealous power, hostile to its southern neighbours, lay in its mountain fastnesses between the territory of the Scots in the south and the land of Cat in the extreme north, and formed a barrier which stretched across Alban from the North Sea to the shores of Assynt on the Skotlands-fiorthr or Minch.

    Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

  • Creich, owned by Hugo Freskyn; including Assynt; granted by Hugo Freskyn to Gilbert while archdeacon of Moray.

    Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

  • The latter had thus been forced to move eastwards, in order to avoid constant raids by the Irish Danes and Norsemen and the Gallgaels, who thus possessed themselves of all the coast of Scotland then known as Airergaithel or Argyll, which extended up to Ross and Assynt, west of the Drumalban watershed.

    Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

  • The clan song of the Mackenzies is the composition in question, and its author is now ascertained to have been a gentleman, or farmer of the better class, of the name of Norman Macleod, a native of Assynt [130] in Sutherland.

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

  • He gave himself up to Macleod of Assynt, a former adherent, from whom he had reason to expect assistance in consideration of that circumstance, and, indeed, from the dictates of honourable feeling and common humanity.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

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