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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... raised the price of it considerably . At my first coming it was but sixteen - pence a bottle , and now it is raised to two shillings , although there be no more duty paid upon it now than there was before , which , indeed , was often ...
... raised the price of it considerably . At my first coming it was but sixteen - pence a bottle , and now it is raised to two shillings , although there be no more duty paid upon it now than there was before , which , indeed , was often ...
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... raised some wheat ; but he made so much parade of it , that the stack stood in his court - yard till the rats had almost devoured it . This , and a good melon he treated me with , which was raised under a rock facing the south , and ...
... raised some wheat ; but he made so much parade of it , that the stack stood in his court - yard till the rats had almost devoured it . This , and a good melon he treated me with , which was raised under a rock facing the south , and ...
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... raised ; burnt , it is the manure of the country ; but oftener 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 ...
... raised ; burnt , it is the manure of the country ; but oftener 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 ...
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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