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The Saracen Head

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The Saracen Head is a public house at two hundred nine Gallowgate, recognizable as a classic tenement corner pub. It carries the name of a famous eighteenth-century coaching inn that once stood nearby, where travelers like Samuel Johnson and James Boswell stayed during their tour of the Hebrides in seventeen seventy-three.

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