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natural history of the Bass, but this is hardly the place in 

 which to enlarge on the former strength and importance 

 of the Rock, as a fortress and a prison, grim and curious 



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enough as is this aspect of its history. All that strange 

 recital has been admirably told, with many details, in 

 the Rev. Thomas M'Crie's " The Bass Rock : Its Civil and 



