Water
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
Note about 'balgan-bèiste', September 1909
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/92
Scope and Contents
Note about 'balgan-bèiste' and that it is a globe with an insect inside it, which when a cow swallows an insect is put in water and the water then sprinkled on the cow. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
September 1909
Note about burnt stones, August 1883
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/139
Scope and Contents
Note about burnt stones, that some were found at Eas Ghairichidh [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] and that they float.
Dates:
August 1883
Note about coastline of Loch Fyne, Tarbert, June 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/105
Scope and Contents
Note about the coastline of Loch Fyne, Tarbert [Loch Fìne, An Tairbeirt, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. The text has been scored through in pencil.
Dates:
June 1887
Note on a charm entitled 'An Gulman', 11 September 1909
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/103
Scope and Contents
Note on a charm entitled 'An Gulman' [cataract] probably collected from Catherine MacLean, crofter, Naast, Gairloch, Ross and Cromarty [Nàst, Geàrr Loch, Ros is Cromba], which notes that there must be a sixpence or a shilling in the bottom of the basin [of water] used in the charm. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
11 September 1909
Notes about the origins of the Patons in Uist [Uibhist] and cures, 3 February 1874
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/49
Scope and Contents
Note about the origins of the Patons [or Beatons] in Uist [Uibhist] that they are descended from the Olla[mh] Ileach [Ollamh Ìleach], a celebrated herbalist, who lived at Dallabrog [Dalabrog/Daliburgh, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. It notes that 'The cuillion [holly] that he bro[ugh]t is good for cleibh druim', that am maraich [scurvy grass] could be found in cairns on the Strand and that the best water for boiling plants was in Geary heille [Geàrraidh Sheilidh/Garryhellie].
Dates:
3 February 1874
Notes for lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', late 19th century
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Identifier: Coll-74/9/1
Scope and Contents
Notes for 6 lectures on 'Geographical Evolution', encompasing a wide variety of related subjects. Sir Archibald Geike looked at various geological periods and how both the areas occupied by land and water changed over time. He looked at the creation of many geological formations, at the materials they were composed of and the processes involved, including the infleunce of different elements within the natural world. He used as examples numerous locations, mostly within the British Isles but...
Dates:
late 19th century
Notes on Dublin Society premiums, 04 June 1782
Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/121
Scope and Contents
Notes by Joseph Black about premiums on kelp being offered by the Dublin Society.
Dates:
04 June 1782
Pile of earthenware water pitchers near a town in the desert, 1870s-1930s
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Identifier: Coll-1434/1155
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a pile of earthenware water pitchers near a town in the desert in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Proverb which reads 'Cha dhubh grian 's cha gheallaich uisg air', c1892
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/107
Scope and Contents
Proverb which reads 'Cha dhubh grian 's cha gheallaich uisg air' [Sun won't blacken nor water bleach it]. The text is followed by an arithmetic calculation which has been scored out.
Dates:
c1892
Song beginning 'Chi mi Caibeal Dhiar[maid]', 27 March 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/37
Scope and Contents
Song beginning 'Chi mi Caibeal Dhiar[maid], Na chreag iasg' [Donnchadh Mac Cuilcein/Duncan Mac Cuilcein] collected from Barbara MacPhi [Barbara MacPhie] aged 73, Dreumsdale [Dreumasdal/Drimsdale, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The song is composed of twenty lines and is interrupted with a note on where 'Teisteamul nan gauna' [Teistamul nan Gamhna] is. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
27 March 1872