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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... But by the ' seventies and ' eighties they were in use in most parishes , at least in the central and eastern Highlands . As a result of such innovations kept a few sheep ; but there were no sheep 28 Beyond the Highland Line.
... But by the ' seventies and ' eighties they were in use in most parishes , at least in the central and eastern Highlands . As a result of such innovations kept a few sheep ; but there were no sheep 28 Beyond the Highland Line.
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... sheep ; but there were no sheep farms , for the she grazed with the cattle , and were a subordinate item in t general scheme of agriculture . In the 1760s , however , e perienced sheep farmers from the south began to rent farms Argyll ...
... sheep ; but there were no sheep farms , for the she grazed with the cattle , and were a subordinate item in t general scheme of agriculture . In the 1760s , however , e perienced sheep farmers from the south began to rent farms Argyll ...
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... sheep ; for a sheep - stealer is infamous even among them . LETTER XXIV || The heritable power of pit and gallows , as they call it , which still is exercised by some within their proper districts , is , I think , too much for any ...
... sheep ; for a sheep - stealer is infamous even among them . LETTER XXIV || The heritable power of pit and gallows , as they call it , which still is exercised by some within their proper districts , is , I think , too much for any ...
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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