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Cardan seems to have been astonished at the wealth of precious stones he found in Scotland dark blue stones, diamonds, and carbuncles "maxime juxta academiam Glaguensis oppidi in Gludisdalia regione," and he casts about to explain how it is that England produces nothing of the kind, but only silver and lead.
In another place we have among the saint's suitors "plebeius pauperrimus, qui in ea habitabat regione quæ Stagni litoribus Aporici est contermina." The "Stagnum Aporicum" is Lochaber; so here we have a pauper from the neighbourhood of Lochaber a designation which I take to be familiarly known at "the Board of Supervision for the Relief of the Poor in Scotland."
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