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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... Scotland . According to the Dictionary of National Biography , he has been ' variously described as an engineer officer who served with General Wade in Scotland in 1724-28 , as an army contractor , and as an illiterate hack- writer ...
... Scotland . According to the Dictionary of National Biography , he has been ' variously described as an engineer officer who served with General Wade in Scotland in 1724-28 , as an army contractor , and as an illiterate hack- writer ...
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Three Journals of Travel in Eighteenth Century Scotland; Burt, Pennant, Thornton A. J. Youngson. are men of good lives and sober conversation , and less stiff in many indifferent matters than most of their brethren in other parts of ...
Three Journals of Travel in Eighteenth Century Scotland; Burt, Pennant, Thornton A. J. Youngson. are men of good lives and sober conversation , and less stiff in many indifferent matters than most of their brethren in other parts of ...
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Three Journals of Travel in Eighteenth Century Scotland; Burt, Pennant, Thornton A. J. Youngson. be a guide ; and he thought his case very hard , because he had not been in the affair , or the scrape as they call it all over Scotland ...
Three Journals of Travel in Eighteenth Century Scotland; Burt, Pennant, Thornton A. J. Youngson. be a guide ; and he thought his case very hard , because he had not been in the affair , or the scrape as they call it all over Scotland ...
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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