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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... nature has sufficiently enclosed their lands by the feet of the surrounding mountains . Now , after what has been said , where can this improvement be ? But it seems , they had rather you should think them ignorant , lazy , or any thing ...
... nature has sufficiently enclosed their lands by the feet of the surrounding mountains . Now , after what has been said , where can this improvement be ? But it seems , they had rather you should think them ignorant , lazy , or any thing ...
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... nature dissolves , and presents it ready prepared to the lazy farmer . This tract seems the residence of sloth ; the people almost torpid with idleness , and most wretched ; their hovels most miserable , made of poles wattled and ...
... nature dissolves , and presents it ready prepared to the lazy farmer . This tract seems the residence of sloth ; the people almost torpid with idleness , and most wretched ; their hovels most miserable , made of poles wattled and ...
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... nature could devise , to prevent the inconveniency I had suffered from fore springs , in my former expeditions , by taking them off ; never conceiving that the hind ones , which had now gone above three thousand miles , totally ...
... nature could devise , to prevent the inconveniency I had suffered from fore springs , in my former expeditions , by taking them off ; never conceiving that the hind ones , which had now gone above three thousand miles , totally ...
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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