SIR ROBERT SIBBALD. 
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certain general queries, to the number of twelve, to 
which he solicited answers from all who were 
competent to give information ; in addition to 
which, he issued five sets of special queries to the 
following classes : — 1st, To the nobility ; 2d, To 
the clergy ; 3d, To the gentry ; 4th, To the royal 
burghs ; and 5th, To the universities and schools. 
In reply, he received much valuable matter, par- 
ticularly from M'Kenzie, bishop of Orkney, 
Graham, bishop of the Isles, Mr James Wallace, 
minister of Kirkwall, and Mr Sympson, minister, 
author of the account of Galloway, printed 
in 1823, by Thomas Maitland, Esq. advocate 
The Countess of Errol, sister to the Earl of 
Perth, sent him a description of Brechin, 
together with some drawings of birds, and two 
engraved plates, the one of silver, the other of 
copper. 
This was followed, in 1683, by a Latin pam- 
phlet of twenty pages folio, which he entitled 
“ Nuncius Scoto-Britannicus, sive Admonitio de 
Atlanti Scotico,” &c. To this is prefixed the 
royal patent, appointing him geographer ; it con- 
tains a plan of the proposed work, with its 
divisions, and the titles of the various chapters ; 
a list of the books and manuscripts he had pro- 
cured relative to the subject, and a list of 
books and manuscripts that he was anxious to 
obtain, but had not been able to procure. His 
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