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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
JOKHEN MUDDINS Jokhen Muddins Revd [Reverend] G. Campbell. Portk [Portmahomack]
D. Fraser. Schoolmaster
William Ross Bindall
030 "Jokhen Muddins' A word of German origin and applied by Antiquarians, especially by that department which interests itself with the history of primitive or at least with prehistoric Man.
JOKHEN MUDDINS (Site of) 030 To the Jokhen Muddins which are to be found on the East & North East Sea Board of Scotland there is no definite information Whether they mark Successive tides of a Western Emigration and consequent Colonization on the part of our early Continental neighbours, or a flocking Shore-ward of the Early inhabitants of Interior Scotland, there is nothing in the accumulations to Show. In the muddins were found abundance of cod Bones and Some spines of Skate, which show that the tribe at Castle Haven had acquired the means of prosocuting the deep Sea Fishing.

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