Evidence: | 'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question of why the St Kildans always got a cold when visited by outsiders]: "Now for the explication of this seeming mystery, which is so very obvious as, for that reason, to have escaped the penetration of Dr. Johnson and his friend, as well as that of the author. Reading the book with my ingenions friend, the late Reverend Mr. Christian of Docking—after ruminating a little, 'The cause, (says he,) is a natural one: The situation of St. Kilda renders a North-East wind indispensably necessary before a stranger can land. The wind, not the stranger, occasions an epidemick cold'."' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 1 Jun 1768 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Norfolk | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | a lady from Norfolk |
Author: | Kenneth Macaulay |
Title: | History of St Kilda |
Genre: | History, Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 21022 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Boswell | |
Editor: | R.W. Chapman | |
Title: | Life of Johnson | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 391 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Boswell, R.W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 391, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21022, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
Originally published 1791 |
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