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Cameron, Duncan, c1818-1900 (police officer | Lochaline | Argyllshire)

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Story and notes about peats, 7 August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/2
Scope and Contents Story and notes collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Tobar Mhoire/Tobermory, Muile/Isle of Mull, telling how he saw a 'lump of peat as large as houses' on the shore at Sgairinish Tiree [Sgairinis/Scarinish, Tiriodh] and that it was full of 'thick bark 1½ thick nuts seed like lintseed = bog myrtle seed the Knots of the wood above remaining.' Cameron states that Dugald MacDugald dug his peats there for several years and describes having found moss with seeds under the sand. He also...
Dates: 7 August 1886

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