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both lists. Cash gave a signed copy of it to the library of the RSGS in June 1917, and as of the 21st century the
National Library of Scotland has two copies, one on a reference shelf and one in a reading room, the latter of which, librarians there told MacInnes, they use all of the time in order to answer questions from the general public.
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he did such an exhaustive job that for the next fifty years nothing of importance was added. According to historian
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Cash was helped by his brother Albert, someone whom he rarely mentioned in his writings, with obtaining maps from the
British Museum in London. Cash himself simply referred to the work as the List and MacInnes notes that Cash's earliest (the "Mountains Visible from Arthur's Seat") and last works were
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engraved. These manuscripts had "fallen into disarray", and Cash began by preserving them. He described and catalogued them, and collected and reviewed everything that had been written on them, and any material connected to the origin of the manuscripts and the maps as they were printed. Apparently
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may refer to Alice waiting anxiously at home for his return and being worried when he is late. He further suggests that Cash's experiments with moonlight excursions were perhaps a way of avoiding being away all day from, or late returning to, Alice, saying that "while Sir
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and the editor of the club journal's first 36 issues, said that Cash had "a familiarity with, and a knowledge of the
Cairngorm Mountains almost unequalled". From the early 1890s on, Cash and McConnochie pioneered climbing in the area.
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occupied very nearly the rest of Cash's life, the next twelve years. His largest work, it eventually ran to some 700 pages in two volumes, the first published in March 1917, and the second in May 1917.
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were printed, and when MacInnes bought a copy from an online bookseller he found that the leaves had not yet been separated, indicating that it had not been read in the century since its publication.
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had reported only that summer that he would not be working that term "owing to ill health" and that "we hope a term's rest will enable him to return with renewed vigour in
October".
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of the landscape viewed from a point, including all visible mountain peaks, crags, and skylines, and recording angular measurements between them taken with a
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