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  • 61Dead Man's Ransom —   …

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  • 62General classification in the Tour de France — Yellow jersey Tour de France Award details Sport Road Cycling Competition …

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  • 63PAISLEY —    (66), a Renfrewshire town, 7 m. W. of Glasgow, on the White Cart. It is the chief centre of manufacture of cotton thread in the world, and its other industries include dyeing, bleaching, woollen goods, and engineering. There are several fine… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 64Ayrshire —    AYRSHIRE, an extensive county, on the western coast of Scotland, bounded on the north by Renfrewshire, on the east by the counties of Lanark and Dumfries, on the south by the stewartry of Kirkcudbright and Wigtonshire, and on the west by the… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 65Inverness-Shire —    INVERNESS SHIRE, an extensive county, in the north of Scotland, bounded on the north by Ross shire and the Moray Frith; on the east, by the counties of Nairn, Elgin, Banff, and Aberdeen; on the south, by Perth shire and the county of Argyll;… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 66Orkney Islands —    ORKNEY ISLANDS, a group forming, with that of Shetland, a maritime county, in the northern extremity of Scotland; and bounded on the north by the waters which divide Orkney from Shetland; on the east by the North Sea; on the south by the… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 67Portmoak —    PORTMOAK, a parish, in the county of Kinross, 6 miles (S. E. by E.) from Kinross; containing, with the villages of Kinnesswood and Scotland Well, 1616 inhabitants. This place, anciently called Servanus, derived that appellation from a priory… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland