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... house on piles of iron screwed into the sand was erected , but it was washed away in the following year . As soon as a vessel is known to have been driven upon the sands , rockets are thrown up from the light - vessels , and the fact ...
... house on piles of iron screwed into the sand was erected , but it was washed away in the following year . As soon as a vessel is known to have been driven upon the sands , rockets are thrown up from the light - vessels , and the fact ...
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... house is still wrapped in some measure of obscurity . Uncritical genealo- gists of the 17th c . affected to trace its descent from a mythical High Constable of Charlemagne , a Duke of Gordon , who , it was said , flourished about the ...
... house is still wrapped in some measure of obscurity . Uncritical genealo- gists of the 17th c . affected to trace its descent from a mythical High Constable of Charlemagne , a Duke of Gordon , who , it was said , flourished about the ...
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... house who bought ' land . His son George , the second marquis , distinguished himself by the zeal with which he espoused the royal cause in the great civil war of his time . You may take my head from my shoulders , ' he said , in answer ...
... house who bought ' land . His son George , the second marquis , distinguished himself by the zeal with which he espoused the royal cause in the great civil war of his time . You may take my head from my shoulders , ' he said , in answer ...
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... House of Gordon , by C. A. Gordon , appeared at Aberdeen , in 1 vol . 12mo , in 1754. The chief value of both books is now in their rarity . A work of much greater merit is the Genea- logical History of the Earldom of Sutherland , or ...
... House of Gordon , by C. A. Gordon , appeared at Aberdeen , in 1 vol . 12mo , in 1754. The chief value of both books is now in their rarity . A work of much greater merit is the Genea- logical History of the Earldom of Sutherland , or ...
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... house , several military estab- lishments , and a great transit trade in agricultural produce and fish , especially salmon . Pop . 9000 . From with politics , quietly settled down in a professorship in his native town , and devoted ...
... house , several military estab- lishments , and a great transit trade in agricultural produce and fish , especially salmon . Pop . 9000 . From with politics , quietly settled down in a professorship in his native town , and devoted ...
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