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fhire, mould fend two of his monks to fuperintend the conftruc- 

 tion of the building. This letter is dated in 1426. The demo- 

 lition of the religious houfes at Perth began in 1559. Adam 

 For man, the lafl prior, and fome other of the monks who did 

 not adopt the reformed religion, retired to Errol, not far diftant, 

 where they pofTeffed a confiderable property. This was proba- 

 bly after the date of 1562, mentioned above. 



1803. 

 Account of the term Skull or Skoll as ufed in old Writings, ExpuJdonof 

 being an Article in the Etymological Dictionary of the Scot- jklifot^ou. 

 ijh Language^ propofed to be published by the Reverend 

 John Jamieson, D. D. Read April 1803. 



The work, of which this communication is to make a part,, 

 is intended to illuftrate the affinity of the language fpo- 

 ken in the low country of Scotland, with the Saxon, the 

 Iflandic, and other dialects of the Gothic. The import- 

 ance of this undertaking cannot be queftioned. Etymology is. 

 often the only light by which we can trace the migrations of 

 the early inhabitants of countries, and, in the prefent inftance, 

 may afford the explanation of a leading fact in the hiflory of 

 this ifland, viz. the eftablifhment of the language in queftion 

 over all the low part of Scotland, from a period of very remote 

 antiquity, while the Gaelic was the language of the mountain- 

 ous part. The following is an extract from Dr Jamieson's 

 paper. 



Skul ? . 



