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GlensHiel                                 census 1881 1
            screenprint, 2010, 57 x 76cm, edition of 5                            pop.        G.speaking
                                                      glenshiel            424             400
                                                      As for the title’s form: ‘H is really just a breathing, and is
                                                      rarely found on its own; and lenited consonants have some
                                                      air coming through.’  - air through Glenshiel / Gleann Seile.
                                                                  2
                                                             “we might as well omit to study nature because
                                                      she is old” 3

                                                      1  Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness   vol.X
                                                      2  A Gaelic Alphabet – George McLennan, p18
                                                      3  Walden & Civil Disobedience - H D Thoreau, p146





























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