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Glencoe
/ ɡlɛnˈkəʊ /
noun
- a glen in W Scotland, in S Highland: site of a massacre of Macdonalds by Campbells and English troops (1692)
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The mountains were covered with cattle from the laagers about Glencoe Station.
In the morning, we had decided to cross the country, or endeavor to do so, toward Hutchinson or Glencoe.
The route I had chosen involved great loss of time, the weekly sailing of the Glencoe on the south coast being a great drawback.
Withamite is a carmine-red to straw-yellow, strongly pleochroic variety from Glencoe in Scotland.
These troops were to guard the southern passes out of Glencoe, while Hamilton was to sweep the passes from the north.
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