 | Thomas Pennant - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1776 - 548 pages
...of fifli annually. On the bank are the remains of a very antient iron furnace. Mr. Dounie has feen the back of a grate, marked SG Hay, or Sir George...company here in the time of the Queen Regent ; and is fuppofed to have chofen this remote place for the fake of quiet iJn thofe turbulent times. Potatoes... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1809 - 964 pages
...lafls of fiih annually. On the bank are the remains of a very ancient iron furnace. Mr. Dounie has feen the back of a grate, marked SG Hay, or Sir George...company here in the time of the Queen Regent, and is fuppofed to have chofen this remote place for the fake of qu;et in thofe turbulent times. Potatoes... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1809 - 1102 pages
...are the remains of a very ancient iron furnace. Mr. Dounie has feen the back of a grate, marked S. G Hay, or Sir George Hay, who was head of a company here in the time of the Queen Regent, and is fuppoied to have ehofen this remote place for the fake of qu'et in thofe turbulent times. Potatoes... | |
 | John Henry Dixon - History - 1886 - 512 pages
...exhausted and their lease expired." Pennant notes in his Tour (Appendix B), that the Rev. John Dounie had seen the back of a grate marked " SG Hay," or Sir George Hay. Those acquainted with old inscriptions tell us that the initial S was a usual abbreviation for the... | |
 | James Moore Swank - Coal mines and mining - 1892 - 614 pages
...Scotland, (1769,) mentions " the remains of a very ancient iron furnace," and adds that " Mr. Dounie has seen the back of a grate marked SG Hay, or Sir...a company here in the. time of the Queen Regent." Some of the ore used was found in the neighborhood, but a part seems to have been brought by sea from... | |
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... annually. On the bank are the remains of a very ancient iron furnace. Mr. Dounie has feen the back of a grate, marked SG Hay... 