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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... hundred pounds worth of meal is annually imported . They sell about seven hundred pounds worth of black cattle ; but keep only sheep and goats for the use of private families , neither butter or cheese is made for sale . The men ...
... hundred pounds worth of meal is annually imported . They sell about seven hundred pounds worth of black cattle ; but keep only sheep and goats for the use of private families , neither butter or cheese is made for sale . The men ...
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... hundred and eight head of cattle , and about five hundred sheep . There is no heath in this island : cattle unused to that plant give bloody milk ; which is the case with the cattle of Iona transported to Mull , where that vegetable ...
... hundred and eight head of cattle , and about five hundred sheep . There is no heath in this island : cattle unused to that plant give bloody milk ; which is the case with the cattle of Iona transported to Mull , where that vegetable ...
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... hundred or three hundred horses being every day brought to the water- side from very distant parts . It is computed that each boat gets about forty pounds in the season . A barrel holds five hundred herrings , if they are of the best ...
... hundred or three hundred horses being every day brought to the water- side from very distant parts . It is computed that each boat gets about forty pounds in the season . A barrel holds five hundred herrings , if they are of the best ...
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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