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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... inhabitants of one village must walk before him to make a path to the next ; and so on to the end of his progress . And in a dark night they light him from one inhabited place to another , which are mostly far distant , by carrying ...
... inhabitants of one village must walk before him to make a path to the next ; and so on to the end of his progress . And in a dark night they light him from one inhabited place to another , which are mostly far distant , by carrying ...
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... inhabitants cannot subsist upon their harvest : about three 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 ...
... inhabitants cannot subsist upon their harvest : about three 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 ...
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... inhabitants . The penny - lands derive their name from some old valuation . The sum requisite to stock one is thirty pounds : it maintains seven cows and two horses ; and the tenant can raise on it eight bolls of small black oats , the ...
... inhabitants . The penny - lands derive their name from some old valuation . The sum requisite to stock one is thirty pounds : it maintains seven cows and two horses ; and the tenant can raise on it eight bolls of small black oats , 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