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Title: Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies)
A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies

Author: John Howie

Release Date: March 7, 2009 [eBook #28272]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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WORTHIES)***

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Transcriber's note:

In the original text, Scottish names, such as M'Clelland or
M'Kail, sometimes use a regular apostrophe and sometimes a
reversed apostrophe. In this transcription, the ASCII apostrophe
character (') has been used throughout.

Greek has been transliterated in this version of the e-text,
and is surrounded by braces, {like this}.

A caret character (^) is used to indicate a superscript in "Rob^t."
and "ALEX^R."

Page numbers in the Contents, Errata, and these notes, refer to
the page numbers in the original text. The original page numbers
have an error: the page following 336 is numbered 347.

Missing quotation marks and other minor punctuation errors and
inconsistencies such as differing hyphenations of words have been
silently corrected.

Missing or poorly printed letters in words have been silently
supplied.

Illegible text that could not be supplied from other sources
is marked {illegible}.

Where a word differs from modern spelling, but is consistent
within the text, e.g. atchievement, the original spelling is
retained. Other typographical errors have been corrected,
particularly where there is inconsistency within the text. A
detailed list of these changes (including those described in
the Errata) can be found at the end of the text.

CONTENTS

Biographia Scoticana
The Preface
The Introduction
The Lives and Characters of the Scots Worthies
Contents
Errata
Footnotes to Biographia Scoticana

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