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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... miles of road and a number of important bridges . But all of this was south of the Great Glen , the line of many of the roads was not well chosen , and they were seldom properly maintained . For the Highlands , however , these roads set ...
... miles of road and a number of important bridges . But all of this was south of the Great Glen , the line of many of the roads was not well chosen , and they were seldom properly maintained . For the Highlands , however , these roads set ...
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... miles wide . See on the road side a great wheel , designed for the raising water from the neighboring collieries . The coal is eight feet thick , dips one yard in five , and points N.E. by N.W ; is sold on the bank for four shillings ...
... miles wide . See on the road side a great wheel , designed for the raising water from the neighboring collieries . The coal is eight feet thick , dips one yard in five , and points N.E. by N.W ; is sold on the bank for four shillings ...
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... miles , put into Loch - Jurn , or the lake of hell , on the Inverness coast , and anchor about two o'clock near a little isle on the South side , four miles within the mouth . Land on the North side , three miles distant from our ship ...
... miles , put into Loch - Jurn , or the lake of hell , on the Inverness coast , and anchor about two o'clock near a little isle on the South side , four miles within the mouth . Land on the North side , three miles distant from our ship ...
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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