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Hace 20 horas · Etymology. The earliest written references that have survived relating to the islands were made by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, where he states that there are 30 Hebudes, and makes a separate reference to Dumna, which Watson (1926) concludes is unequivocally the Outer Hebrides.Writing about 80 years later, in 140–150 AD, Ptolemy, drawing on the earlier naval expeditions of ...
