Beyond the Highland Line: Three Journals of Travel in Eighteenth Century Scotland; Burt, Pennant, ThorntonA. J. Youngson Collins, 1974 - 252 Seiten |
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... HIGHLANDS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Until towards the very end of the eighteenth century , visitors to the Highlands did not report what they saw in romantic terms . Little inclined to go into raptures over Highland scenery , they ...
... HIGHLANDS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Until towards the very end of the eighteenth century , visitors to the Highlands did not report what they saw in romantic terms . Little inclined to go into raptures over Highland scenery , they ...
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... Highlands after Inverness , and had been not unimportant even in 1750. It had an excellent harbour , a population ... Highlands visited Inveraray . 1 J. Knox , Tour through the Highlands of Scotland and the Hebride Isles ( London 1787 ) ...
... Highlands after Inverness , and had been not unimportant even in 1750. It had an excellent harbour , a population ... Highlands visited Inveraray . 1 J. Knox , Tour through the Highlands of Scotland and the Hebride Isles ( London 1787 ) ...
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... Highlands , requiring private and public intervention to prevent widespread mortality . These calamities , and the flow of people southward and across the Atlantic which they helped to bring about , drew attention to the Highlands . The ...
... Highlands , requiring private and public intervention to prevent widespread mortality . These calamities , and the flow of people southward and across the Atlantic which they helped to bring about , drew attention to the Highlands . The ...
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appearance birch boat brought busses called Campbeltown castle cattle chief chieftain clan coast common corn danger distance Dr Johnson eight England farms feet Firth of Clyde fish fishery Fort William four Gannet gentleman Glen Grantown ground heath Highland geography Highlands hills horses hundred inhabitants Inveraray Inverness Iona island isle killed kind Kingussie laird lake land Loch Loch Awe Loch Broom Lochaber Lowlands M'Intosh manner miles mountains narrow never night North oatmeal oats obliged occasion Outer Hebrides passed Pennant pines plaid poor pounds pretty quantity rain rents ride river road rocks roebuck salmon scarcely Scotland season seen servants sheep shillings shore shot side Skie snow sometimes soon South stones tacksmen tenants THOMAS PENNANT Thornton thought told town trees trout vast weather whole wind women woods