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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... mountains , not far from Keppoch in Lochaber , I observed , in the hollow ( though too narrow to admit much of the sun ) a greater quantity of grass than I remembered to have seen in any such spot in the inner parts of the Highlands ...
... mountains , not far from Keppoch in Lochaber , I observed , in the hollow ( though too narrow to admit much of the sun ) a greater quantity of grass than I remembered to have seen in any such spot in the inner parts of the Highlands ...
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... mountains . They politically urged that England was engaged in bloody wars foreign and domestic , that it could at that time ill spare its troops ; and that the Government might , from that consideration , be induced to grant to the ...
... mountains . They politically urged that England was engaged in bloody wars foreign and domestic , that it could at that time ill spare its troops ; and that the Government might , from that consideration , be induced to grant to the ...
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... mountain of Buachal - ety , a little West of the King's house . All the other mountains of Glen - Co resemble it , and are evidently but naked and solid rocks , rising on each side perpendicularly to a great height from a flat narrow ...
... mountain of Buachal - ety , a little West of the King's house . All the other mountains of Glen - Co resemble it , and are evidently but naked and solid rocks , rising on each side perpendicularly to a great height from a flat narrow ...
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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