The Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol. 15: Drawn Up From the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover
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Excerpt from The Statistical Account of Scotland<br/><br/>Prks Now although they ascribe some.of their an cient buildings, such as the highchurch of Glasgow, to the Picts, or Peghs, as they call them, yet it is matter of noto riety that the word Bret is utterly unknown to the com mon graph of Clydesdale. This he has advanced merely for the purpo e of supporting a favourite system, and to mislead in the same way that he, in a former publication, had averted that scraps of the second part of his own Har dy knute were sung immemorially by the common people Of Clydesdale. Mr Pinkerton also avers that the lan guage of this part of Scotland still retains something of the Welih accent. This is equally groundlefs, nor can he print out one single instance of it and although nu merous words used in the county are Gaelic, yet none are Weiib, ualefa in common with the Gaelic....
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