Rocks and Rivers: Or Highland Wanderings Over Crag and Correi, "flood and Fell.".John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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John Colquhoun (Author of The Moor and the Loch.) ADVERTISEMENT . THE following irregular sketches of wild expeditions , now loosely thrown together , were begun in the year 1841 . They were penned just as they occurred , often at long ...
John Colquhoun (Author of The Moor and the Loch.) ADVERTISEMENT . THE following irregular sketches of wild expeditions , now loosely thrown together , were begun in the year 1841 . They were penned just as they occurred , often at long ...
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... long intervals of brilliant sunshine : the lights and shadows upon the opposite mountains seemed formed to call up feelings and recollections long gone by . Our citizen , however , returned vastly delighted at having rather called up so ...
... long intervals of brilliant sunshine : the lights and shadows upon the opposite mountains seemed formed to call up feelings and recollections long gone by . Our citizen , however , returned vastly delighted at having rather called up so ...
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... long by half a mile broad , called in Gaelic , Lochan Nahachalach ; and a little to the east , con- nected by a rocky brook , is Loch Bah ( the Drowning Loch ) , about three miles long by a mile broad . The shores of these lochs , if ...
... long by half a mile broad , called in Gaelic , Lochan Nahachalach ; and a little to the east , con- nected by a rocky brook , is Loch Bah ( the Drowning Loch ) , about three miles long by a mile broad . The shores of these lochs , if ...
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... Loch Long ; and having touched at Arden Tinny , and viewed the fairy land of Glenfinert , its emerald lawn , and rampart of brown hill and tangled wood , we struck into the bleak Loch Goil . A short time brought us alongside of its ...
... Loch Long ; and having touched at Arden Tinny , and viewed the fairy land of Glenfinert , its emerald lawn , and rampart of brown hill and tangled wood , we struck into the bleak Loch Goil . A short time brought us alongside of its ...
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... long , rugged , but enjoyable drive , partly along the banks of Loch Awe , where the cuckoo was heard in every dell , or seen poising himself upon some still leafless patriarchal thorn , and partly through the environs of the forest , I ...
... long , rugged , but enjoyable drive , partly along the banks of Loch Awe , where the cuckoo was heard in every dell , or seen poising himself upon some still leafless patriarchal thorn , and partly through the environs of the forest , I ...
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