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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... island rises into little rocky hills , with narrow verdant hollows between ( for they merit not the name of vallies ) and numerous enough for every recluse to take his solitary walk , undisturbed by society . || The soil is a compound ...
... island rises into little rocky hills , with narrow verdant hollows between ( for they merit not the name of vallies ) and numerous enough for every recluse to take his solitary walk , undisturbed by society . || The soil is a compound ...
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... island Convallus and Kinnatil , two kings of Scotland , and of crowning a third . At length , worn out with age , he died , in Iona , in the arms of his disciples . || After the death of St Columba , the island received the name of Y ...
... island Convallus and Kinnatil , two kings of Scotland , and of crowning a third . At length , worn out with age , he died , in Iona , in the arms of his disciples . || After the death of St Columba , the island received the name of Y ...
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... island , but is destitute even of a horse - ferry . JULY 17. At five in the morning quit our situation , and ... islands of Rona and Croulin , Rasa , distinguished by the high hillock , called Dun - canna ; Scalpa , and the low verdant ...
... island , but is destitute even of a horse - ferry . JULY 17. At five in the morning quit our situation , and ... islands of Rona and Croulin , Rasa , distinguished by the high hillock , called Dun - canna ; Scalpa , and the low verdant ...
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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