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[389 ] Martin's Western Islands of Scotland, 1716, p. 42.
[390 ]Letters from the East, by John Carne, Esq. London, 1826, p. 77.
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[395 ]Defensative, 1583.
[396a ]A Talmudic Miscellany. Compiled and translated by Paul Isaac Hershon. London, 1880, p. 342.