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  Firth of Tay ref 1

  Flanders Moss ref 1

  Flodden, Battle of ref 1, ref 2

  Flooers o’ the Forest ref 1

  Fontenoy, Battle of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Forbes, Bishop ref 1, ref 2

  Forbes of Culloden ref 1

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  Forsyth, Michael ref 1

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  Fraser, John of Lovat ref 1

  Fraser, Simon (Lord Lovat) ref 1

  Fraser Highlanders ref 1

  Free Church of Scotland ref 1

  Freiceadan Dubh, Am see Black Watch

  Freskin, Flemming ref 1

  Furnace, HMS ref 1, ref 2

  Gadie Burn ref 1, ref 2

  Gaelic language ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12, ref 13, ref 14, ref 15, ref 16, ref 17, ref 18, ref 19, ref 20, ref 21, ref 22, ref 23, ref 24, ref 25, ref 26, ref 27, ref 28, ref 29, ref 30, ref 31, ref 32, ref 33, ref 34, ref 35, ref 36

  education ref 1

  hymns ref 1

  in retreat ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  placenames ref 1

  songs ref 1

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  Gaidhealtachd, The ref 1

  Garioch ref 1

  Gask Ridge Frontier ref 1, ref 2

  gaugers see excisemen

  Gaulish language ref 1

  George I, King ref 1

  George II, King ref 1

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  visit to Scotland ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  ghost fences ref 1

  Gibbon, Lewis Grassic (James Leslie Mitchell) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

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  Glasgow ref 1

  Central Station ref 1

  Evening News ref 1, ref 2

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  Mitchell Library ref 1

  University ref 1

  Glen Feshie ref 1

  Glen Grant whisky ref 1

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  glenblocker forts ref 1

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  Glenfarclas whisky ref 1

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  Graham, James see Montrose, Duke of

  Graham, John see Dundee, Viscount

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  origins of name ref 1

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  Graupius Mountain see Mons Graupius

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  herring fishing ref 1

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  horse fairs ref 1

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  Hume, David ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Huntly ref 1

  Iapetus Ocean and Suture ref 1

  Ice Ages ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Inchcolm island ref 1

  Inchtuthil Roman fort ref 1, ref 2

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  Islington Borough Council ref 1

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  Killing Times ref 1

  Kilmarnock, Earl of ref 1, ref 2

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  Lorne, Kindred of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Lovat, Lord see Fraser, Simon

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  Lowland Clearances ref 1

  Lugi (‘Raven People’) ref 1, ref 2

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  MacGregor, Donald Glas ref 1

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  Mackenzie, Munro ref 1

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  MacPhee, Catherine ref 1

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  MacWilliam, King Donald ref 1, ref 2

  MacWilliam, Gillescop ref 1

  Malcolm I, King ref 1, ref 2

  Malcolm II, King ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Malcolm III, King ref 1, ref 2

  Malcolm IV, King ref 1

  Malcolm of the Ocean ref 1

  Malcolm’s Mount ref 1

  Mansfield, Earls of ref 1

  Manx Gaelic ref 1

  Mar ref 1, ref 2

  Mar, Earl of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Marrowmen ref 1

  Mary, Queen of Scots ref 1

  Matheson, Sir James ref 1, ref 2

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  Maunder, Edward ref 1, ref 2

  McCombie, William of Tillyfour ref 1, ref 2

  McCoy, Capt ref 1

  McGillivray, Alexander of Dunmaglass ref 1

  Mearns, The ref 1, ref 2

  Melville, Andrew ref 1

  Merchandise Marks Act ref 1

  Merlin ref 1

  Mitchell, James Leslie see Gibbon, Lewis Grassic

  Mons Graupius, Battle of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10

  Montrose, Duke of (James Graham) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Monymusk ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Moot Hill, Scone ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Morar ref 1, ref 2

  Moray, Bishop Bur of ref 1

  Moray, Earl of (Thomas Dunbar) ref 1

  Moray Firth ref 1, ref 2

  Mull ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Munro, Alice ref 1

  Munro, Capt. ref 1

  Munro, Neil ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Munro, Sir Robert ref 1

  Munshi, The (Hafiz Abdul Karim) ref 1

  Nairn ref 1, ref 2

  Napier Commission on Crofting ref 1, ref 2

  Napoleonic Wars ref 1

  National Covenant ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  National Mod ref 1

  New Lichts ref 1

  Newbattle Abbey ref 1

  Newcastle, Duke of ref 1

  niRuari, Amie ref 1

  Noble, Sir Iain ref 1

  Noigiallach, High King Niall ref 1, ref 2

  North Sea oil and gas ref 1

  Nyren, Richard ref 1

  O’Donnell, Lord Turlough ref 1

  Ogilvie, James see Seafield, Earl of

  Ogilvy, Sir Walter ref 1, ref 2

  O’Grady, Oliver ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Old Deer ref 1

  Old Pretender see James VII and II

  Old Welsh ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

  Orcades (‘Boar People’) ref 1

  Ordnance Survey ref 1

  Ossian, poems of ref 1

  O’Sullivan, Col John ref 1

  Pass of Leny ref 1

  Patronage Act, 1712 ref 1, ref 2

  peat

  formation of ref 1, ref 2

  use as fuel ref 1

  use in whisky production ref 1

  Pennecuik, Alexander ref 1

  Pentland Firth ref 1

  Perth ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  North Inch ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Peter Pan ref 1, ref 2

  Peterhead ref 1, ref 2

  Pictish language ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Pictish stones ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

  Picts ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Pinnata Castra (the Winged Fort), Burghead ref 1

  ploughmen ref 1

  Pluscarden Abbey/Priory ref 1, ref 2

  Pontius Pilate ref 1

  Portree ref 1, ref 2

  potato famines ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Pragmatic Alliance ref 1

  Prestonpans, Battle of ref 1

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  Prohibition in the USA ref 1, ref 2

  Ptolemy ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Raeburn, Sir Henry ref 1

  Rannoch Moor ref 1, ref 2

  Ranald of the Ocean ref 1

  Reay ref 1

  Red Cuillin ref 1

  reiving ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

  Relief Church ref 1

  Restoration of the Stuarts ref 1

  Richmond, Ian ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  rivers

  Clyde ref 1

  Dee ref 1, ref 2

  Deveron ref 1

  Don ref 1

  Forth ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Morar ref 1

  Ness ref 1

  Nith ref 1

  Spey ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Tay ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8

  Tweed ref 1, ref 2

  Urie ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Rob Roy see MacGregor

  Robert the Bruce, King ref 1

  Robert II, King ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Robert III, King ref 1, ref 2

  Roger of Howden ref 1

  Romans ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10, ref 11, ref 12

  plans to conquer Scotland ref 1, ref 2

  Rona ref 1

  Ross, Bishop of ref 1

  Ross, Euphemia Countess of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Rothiemay ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Rothiemurchus ref 1, ref 2

  Roxburgh ref 1

  Roy, William ref 1

  Royal Army Service Corps ref 1

  Royal Artillery ref 1

  Royal Commission on whisky ref 1

  Royal Engineers ref 1

  Royal Scots Fusiliers ref 1, ref 2

  Ruaidh, Aonghas mac Alasdair ref 1

  Rutherglen Fair ref 1r />
  Ruthven Barracks ref 1

  Sabhal Mòr Ostaig ref 1

  St Andrew ref 1

  St Andrews ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Bishop of ref 1

  University ref 1

  St Andrew’s Day ref 1

  St Boswells ref 1

  St Columba ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  St Fergus ref 1

  St Lawrence Fair ref 1

  St Patrick ref 1

  St Kilda ref 1

  St Machar’s Cathedral, Aberdeen ref 1

  Salmond, Alex ref 1

  Sampson, Agnes ref 1

  Sanquhar Declaration ref 1, ref 2

  Scalan College ref 1

  Scalpay ref 1

  Scapa Flow ref 1

  Schiehallion ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  schiltrons ref 1, ref 2

  Scone

  Abbey ref 1, ref 2

  Coronation Hill ref 1, ref 2

  Hill of Faith ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Moot Hill ref 1, ref 2

  Palace ref 1

  Scotch Malt Whisky Society ref 1

  Scotch Whisky Association ref 1

  Scotichronicon ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Scotland

  as a nation of parishes ref 1

  as the Land of Cakes ref 1

  emigration from ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  geology of ref 1, ref 2

  Highlands seen as scenery ref 1, ref 2

  population decline ref 1

  threat of invasion ref 1

  Scots Kirk, Rotterdam ref 1

  Scots language ref 1

  Scott, Capt. Caroline ref 1

  Scott, Sir Walter ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8

  Scottish Covenant Association ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Scottish Enlightenment ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Scottish National Party ref 1

  Scottish Parliament ref 1, ref 2

  Scottish Privy Council ref 1

  Scottish Reformation ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Scrymgeour, Sir James of Dundee ref 1, ref 2

  Sculptor’s Cave, Covesea ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  sea level, rises in ref 1

  Seafield, Earl of (James Ogilvie) ref 1

  Seaforth Highlanders ref 1

  Second World War ref 1, ref 2

  Sellar, Patrick ref 1, ref 2

  Senones people ref 1

  Shakespeare, William ref 1

  sheep farming ref 1

  Sheriffmuir, Battle of ref 1

  Shetland ref 1

  Shirley, Elizabeth ref 1

  Simprim ref 1

  Skye ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

  Sleeping Warrior, legend of ref 1

  sloinneadh, the ref 1

  Small, James ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Smertae people ref 1

  Smith, Adam ref 1

  Smith, George ref 1, ref 2

  Smith, Iain Crichton ref 1

  Smith, Col J.G. ref 1, ref 1

  Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge ref 1

  Solar Constant ref 1

  Solway Firth ref 1

  Somerled ref 1, ref 2, ref 3