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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... north and south of the Great Glen , and by the 1780s there were almost 1,000 miles of military road in the Highlands . But even these roads were more nearly what we would call tracks , often remarkably rough , stony , steep and winding ...
... north and south of the Great Glen , and by the 1780s there were almost 1,000 miles of military road in the Highlands . But even these roads were more nearly what we would call tracks , often remarkably rough , stony , steep and winding ...
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... North Britain . On the North is Oliver's Fort , a pentagon ; but only the form remains to be traced by the ditches and banks . Near it is a very consider- able rope manufacture . On an eminence South of the town is old Fort George ...
... North Britain . On the North is Oliver's Fort , a pentagon ; but only the form remains to be traced by the ditches and banks . Near it is a very consider- able rope manufacture . On an eminence South of the town is old Fort George ...
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... north is bounded by some very fine , short , tender pasturage , and girded by an irregular wood of weeping birches , here and there exhibiting views of beautiful rocks , vieing with each other in the singularity of their shapes , and ...
... north is bounded by some very fine , short , tender pasturage , and girded by an irregular wood of weeping birches , here and there exhibiting views of beautiful rocks , vieing with each other in the singularity of their shapes , and ...
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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