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[mcdiarmid 
conclusion that he could not have written the book. Boswell 
was told that it was written by Dr. John Macpherson of Skye, 
from materials supplied by Macaulay, and this is confirmed 
by Croker. 
1764. The | History | of | St. Kilda. | Containing | A Description of this 
remarkable Island ; | The Manners and Customs of the Inhabi- 
tants ; | The Religious and Pagan Antiquities there | found ; | 
With many other curious and interesting | Particulars. | By the 
Rev. Mr. Kenneth Macaulay, | Minister of Ardnamurchan. | 
Missionary to the Island, from the Society for Propa- | gating 
Christian Knowledge. | London : | Printed for T. Becket and 
P. A. De Hondt, in | the Strand, mdcclxiv. | 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 8 un. + pp. 278 (iv + 5-278), map. 
Birds at pp. 131-62, p. 182, etc. 
Idem. Second Edition : — A | Voyage | to, and | History | of, 
| St. Kilda. | . . . Dublin : | ... mdcclxv. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 8 un. +pp. 266. 
M‘Crie (Thomas), 1797-1875. See Fleming (Prof.) 
McDiarmid (John), 1790-1852 
This well-known Scottish editor and poet was the son of 
the Rev. Hugh McDiarmid, minister of the Gaelic Church, 
Glasgow, and is said to have been born in Edinburgh in 1790. 
He was mainly self-educated, and became a clerk in the 
Commercial Bank of Edinburgh. He was a poetical con- 
tributor to Blackwood's Magazine , and is said to have been 
instrumental in founding the Scotsman . He became Editor 
of the Dumfries and Galloway Courier early in 1817, and held 
the post until his death on November 18, 1852, during the 
whole of which period he contributed ornithological notes 
and articles to its columns. 
1830. Sketches from Nature. | By John M‘Diarmid. | [quot., 4 lines] 
Published by Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh : | and Simpkin & 
Marshall, London. | mdcccxxx. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. x un. +pp. 13-388. 
Includes a chapter on the Eagle, pp. 13-34, and on Rooks and 
Rookeries, pp. 199-215, etc. 
1817-52. [Articles and Notes in] the Dumfries and Galloway Courier, 
1817-52. 
