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182:"Rambling Collections of Past Times Embracing a Period from the Termination of the Last Till the Close of the Twentieth Year of the Present Century", by Adam Dawson, Esq of Bonnytoun, published 1 January 1868, printed at the Falkirk Herald Office, by A Johnston.
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