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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... taken at Castle - hill , Dunet , Wick , and Thurso . The miraculous draught at the last place is still talked of ; not less than 2,500 being taken at one tide , within the memory of man . At a small distance from Sinclair castle , near ...
... taken at Castle - hill , Dunet , Wick , and Thurso . The miraculous draught at the last place is still talked of ; not less than 2,500 being taken at one tide , within the memory of man . At a small distance from Sinclair castle , near ...
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... taken in these parts as late as May ; about 50 tons are caught in the season . These fish never appear so early on this coast as on the Eastern . Phinocs are taken here in great numbers , 1500 having been taken at a draught . They come ...
... taken in these parts as late as May ; about 50 tons are caught in the season . These fish never appear so early on this coast as on the Eastern . Phinocs are taken here in great numbers , 1500 having been taken at a draught . They come ...
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... taken every precaution human 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 ...
... taken every precaution human 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 ...
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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