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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... distance to divide the whole , foams amidst the dark forest , rushing from rock to rock to a vast distance . Some of these hills are supposed to be the highest part of Great Britain : their height has not yet been taken , but the ...
... distance to divide the whole , foams amidst the dark forest , rushing from rock to rock to a vast distance . Some of these hills are supposed to be the highest part of Great Britain : their height has not yet been taken , but the ...
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... distance , Ben Nevis , and other hills , whose names are not known , and whose northern sides are covered with quantities of snow - drifts . I saw several flocks of golden plover , and killed a brace and a half . At two o'clock we dined ...
... distance , Ben Nevis , and other hills , whose names are not known , and whose northern sides are covered with quantities of snow - drifts . I saw several flocks of golden plover , and killed a brace and a half . At two o'clock we dined ...
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... distance of eighty yards , which I hit , to his astonishment , and , in some degree , to mine , though I knew I could hit a crownpiece at a greater distance , having done it frequently . Got to our inn at Avemore about ten , to the ...
... distance of eighty yards , which I hit , to his astonishment , and , in some degree , to mine , though I knew I could hit a crownpiece at a greater distance , having done it frequently . Got to our inn at Avemore about ten , to 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