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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... boat , at the east end of Loch - Maree : keep on the north shore beneath steep rocks , mostly filled with pines waving over our heads . Observe on the shore a young man of good appearance , hailing the boat in the erse language . I ...
... boat , at the east end of Loch - Maree : keep on the north shore beneath steep rocks , mostly filled with pines waving over our heads . Observe on the shore a young man of good appearance , hailing the boat in the erse language . I ...
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... boat could be procured , in w might troll on the edge of the lake , in some safe harb were soon shown a boatman's house , the master of whic a whisky shop , they said , hard by . I quickly , therefore , my tackle , for we found it ...
... boat could be procured , in w might troll on the edge of the lake , in some safe harb were soon shown a boatman's house , the master of whic a whisky shop , they said , hard by . I quickly , therefore , my tackle , for we found it ...
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... boat will take multi- tudes while the next does not catch a single fish , which makes the boatmen perpetually enquire of each other about the depth of their nets . These are kept up by buoys to a proper pitch , the ropes that run ...
... boat will take multi- tudes while the next does not catch a single fish , which makes the boatmen perpetually enquire of each other about the depth of their nets . These are kept up by buoys to a proper pitch , the ropes that run ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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