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The Animals of Scotland

Robert Sibbald, Lee Raye

Swansea University Author: Lee Raye

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"There must be a divine kindness directed towards our homeland, because most of our animals have a use for human life. We also lack those wild and savage ones of other regions. Wolves were common once upon a time, and even bears are spoken of among the Scottish: but time extinguished the genera...

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ISBN: 1975959930
Published: Columbia CreateSpace 2017
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