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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... Quantity of Arable Land is exceeding small , and its Produce greatly lessened by the prodigious rains that fall upon ... Quantities , and exported to Foreign Parts ; but there are other Species , which may perhaps become Subjects of ...
... Quantity of Arable Land is exceeding small , and its Produce greatly lessened by the prodigious rains that fall upon ... Quantities , and exported to Foreign Parts ; but there are other Species , which may perhaps become Subjects of ...
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... quantity of grass than I remembered to have seen in any such spot in the inner parts of the Highlands . It was in the month of August , when it was grown rank and flagged pretty much , and therefore I was induced to ask why the owner ...
... quantity of grass than I remembered to have seen in any such spot in the inner parts of the Highlands . It was in the month of August , when it was grown rank and flagged pretty much , and therefore I was induced to ask why the owner ...
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... quantity of wood , agreeably shaded . About three hundred acres of land , clear of wood , is laid down chiefly for hay and grazing land : very little of it is applied to the purpose of raising corn ; which , if we may judge from the ...
... quantity of wood , agreeably shaded . About three hundred acres of land , clear of wood , is laid down chiefly for hay and grazing land : very little of it is applied to the purpose of raising corn ; which , if we may judge from 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