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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... vast moun- tains , arrive at Blair , or Athol House , seated on an eminence above a plain , watered by the Gary , an outrageous stream , whose ravages have greatly deformed the valley , by the vast beds of gravel which it has left ...
... vast moun- tains , arrive at Blair , or Athol House , seated on an eminence above a plain , watered by the Gary , an outrageous stream , whose ravages have greatly deformed the valley , by the vast beds of gravel which it has left ...
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... vast height above the head , surpass the beauties of the weeping willow . The Southern extremity is pre - eminently magnificent ; the mountains form there a vast theatre , the bosom of which is covered with extensive forests of pines ...
... vast height above the head , surpass the beauties of the weeping willow . The Southern extremity is pre - eminently magnificent ; the mountains form there a vast theatre , the bosom of which is covered with extensive forests of pines ...
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... vast rate , till we arrived within a mile of the bottom of the loch . Drop anchor , but without effect ; are obliged to weigh again , while the furious gale engages an attention to the sails , and flings us into a double perplexity in ...
... vast rate , till we arrived within a mile of the bottom of the loch . Drop anchor , but without effect ; are obliged to weigh again , while the furious gale engages an attention to the sails , and flings us into a double perplexity in ...
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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