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" Lochan-Eilean, in Strathspey, is spoken of as ' useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in their goods and children here, and it is easily defended. "
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by Spalding Club, Aberdeen - 1847
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People ...

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1864 - 862 pages
...Loch Cannor, the crannoge of Lochau-Eilean, in Strathspey, is spoken of as ' useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in their goods and children here, ana it is easily defended.' Canoes hollowed out of the trunks of oaks have been found as well beside...
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Chambers's Encyclopędia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 3

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 854 pages
...Loch Cannor, the crannoge of Lochau-Eilean, in Strathspey, is spoken of as ' useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in...goods and children here, and it is easily defended.' Canoes hollowed out of the trunks of oaks have been found as well beside the Scotch, as beside the...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 3

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 858 pages
...Loch Cannor, the crannoge of Lochan-Eilean, in Strathspey, is spoken of as ' useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in...goods and children here, and it is easily defended.' Canoes hollowed out of the trunks of oaks have been found as well beside the Scotch, as beside the...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Volumes 15-16

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 pages
...seventeenth century, the crannoge of Lochan-Eilean, in Strathspey, is spoken of as ' useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in...goods and children here, and it is easily defended.' Although there is every probability that many of those sites were occupied from the earliest times,...
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Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 16

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 264 pages
...seventeenth century, the crannoge of Lochan-Eilean, in Strathspey, is spoken of as ' useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in...goods and children here, and it is easily defended.' Although there is every probability that many of those sites were occupied from the earliest times,...
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Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880 ..., Volume 4

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 892 pages
...loch Cannor, the crannogc of Lochan-Eileen, in Strathspey, is spoken of as " useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in...goods and children here, and it is easily defended." Canoes hollowed out of the trunks of oaks have been found as well beside the Scotch, as beside the...
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Recreations of an Antiquary in Perthshire History and Genealogy

Robert Scott Fittis - Genealogy - 1881 - 580 pages
...seventeenth century, the crannoge of Loch-an-Eilean, in Strathspey, is described as " useful to the country in time of troubles or wars, for the people put in...goods and children here, and it is easily defended." Such insular retreats were known in some parts of Eastern Europe in the days of Herodotus : and they...
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Ancient Scottish Lake-dwellings Or Crannogs: With a Supplementary Chapter on ...

Robert Munro - Dwellings - 1882 - 382 pages
...Castle Island, 10 feet." " On the 16th June 1859 there was fished up from the bottom of the in times of troubles or wars, for the people put in their goods and children here, and it is easily defended.' Canoes (Fig. 1) Fig. 1. — Canoe found in Loch Canmor. hollowed out of the trunks of oaks have been...
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The Lake Dwellings of Ireland: Or, Ancient Lacustrine Habitations of Erin ...

William Gregory Wood-Martin - Ireland - 1886 - 402 pages
...crannog of Lochan-Eilean, in Strathspey, is described as "useful to the country in times of trouble or wars, for the people put in their goods and children here, and it is easily defended." Artificial islands formed of wood or stone, often identical with those a short time previously ascertained...
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The Lake Dwellings of Ireland: Or, Ancient Lacustrine Habitations of Erin ...

William Gregory Wood-Martin - Ireland - 1886 - 416 pages
...crannog of Lochan-Eilean, in Strathspey, is described as " useful to the country in times of trouble or wars, for the people put in their goods and children here, and it is easily defended." Artificial islands formed of wood or stone, often identical with those a short time previously ascertained...
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