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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89

Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...

Dates: 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

List of fish names and note about the fish 'siolag-ghobach' [sand-eel], June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/72

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List of fish names and note about the fish 'siolag-ghobach' [sand-eel] probably collected on Ìle/Islay noting that the sand-eel is 'as large ling - 9 in[ches] in gob of this one - blue - not eaten - not in sand'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

List of names of fish and shellfish, August 1903

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/22

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List of names of fish and shellfish probably collected on the Barraigh/Isle of Barra including 'Deanadh maorach - App[lies] to the limpet only - Musgan or Coilleag-Struban = Cailleach (Kintire)' [Cinn Tìre/Kintyre]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: August 1903

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about a crooked headed fish, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/82

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Note probably collected on Ìle/Islay about a crooked headed fish similar to a gurnet. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about a 'long fish like serpent', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/89

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Note about a 'long fish like serpent' collected on Ìle/Islay which reads 'Long fish like serpent 10 f[ee]t on W[est] Bank among the siolag leaping. puts down head in lifting tail.'

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about a turbot or sturgeon, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/87

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Note about a turbot or sturgeon '3 or 4 f[ee]t long 2 1/2 broad no name' caught at Port na h-Abhainne/PortnahavenÌle/Islay.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about dogfish and fishing lines, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/65

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Note probably collected on Ìle/Islay about the breeding habits of 'gobag' [sand eel], 'murlach' [dogfish] and 'sgat' [skate] that they breed 'like the dogs'; that they cut through fishing lines 'like [a] razor' and that eels breed from a horse's hair and that a dog's hair is as good as horse hair. The vocabulary note reads 'Casach = snod iasgaich' [fishing-line].

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about eating fish and vocabulary notes, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/69

Scope and Contents

Note about eating fish probably collected on Ìle/Islay stating that 'The ugsa and Pioc[aich] are the cleanest eats in the sea. Fry of herring eat[en] ciuban used as bait'. The vocabulary notes show 'Bacach = Turbot' and 'Bradan-Leathan = Halibut'.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about herring and hake, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/46

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Note collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, Ìle/Islay, which reads 'Calmoir Herring haig - dif[ficult] to fish.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about pouches on fish, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/79

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Note about pouches on fish collected on Ìle/Islay that 'Crag-dhu has pouch on each side large...Sporan faolin in Murlach [dogfish].' Text has been scored through as if transcribed alsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

List of fish names and note about the fish 'siolag-ghobach' [sand-eel], June 1887

List of names of fish and shellfish, August 1903

Note about a crooked headed fish, June 1887

Note about a 'long fish like serpent', June 1887

Note about a turbot or sturgeon, June 1887

Note about dogfish and fishing lines, June 1887

Note about eating fish and vocabulary notes, June 1887

Note about herring and hake, June 1887

Note about pouches on fish, June 1887

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