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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and island, in the county of Inverness; including the islands of Bernera, Fladda, Fuday, Helesay, Mingala, Pabba, … belongs, it being the most southerly or head of the larger islands among the Hebrides. But its etymology is more … Uist, from the latter of which it is separated by a narrow channel, nearly dry at low water; and is a low island, about …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… in the 1660s. Untypically, compared with other Caribbean islands, Barbadoes remained in British hands from first to … island of BARBADOES was one of the earliest WEST INDIAn islands settled by the British. Although its main crop was …