Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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... dead . I now took a long breath , and but for Peter's delighted face , could scarcely persuade myself she had fallen . If he had either hallooed loud , or thrown straight at the eagle , she would most likely have dashed out , wheeling ...
... dead . I now took a long breath , and but for Peter's delighted face , could scarcely persuade myself she had fallen . If he had either hallooed loud , or thrown straight at the eagle , she would most likely have dashed out , wheeling ...
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... dead body is found upon the mountains , I asked Sandy to relate the story , the substance of which is as follows . A tinker and his termagant wife had long travelled the country . He was much older than his wife , who was a woman of ...
... dead body is found upon the mountains , I asked Sandy to relate the story , the substance of which is as follows . A tinker and his termagant wife had long travelled the country . He was much older than his wife , who was a woman of ...
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... dead water , when a very long cast , you may throw straight out , bringing your fly round , by keeping the point of the rod up instead of down stream . There is an under - handed throw much in use on the Spey , which prevents the line ...
... dead water , when a very long cast , you may throw straight out , bringing your fly round , by keeping the point of the rod up instead of down stream . There is an under - handed throw much in use on the Spey , which prevents the line ...
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... dead calm when we rowed off , but , from certain ap- pearances in the sky the evening before , we were pretty sure of at least as much wind as we wanted before breakfast- time . So it proved . By ten o'clock we had a north - wester ...
... dead calm when we rowed off , but , from certain ap- pearances in the sky the evening before , we were pretty sure of at least as much wind as we wanted before breakfast- time . So it proved . By ten o'clock we had a north - wester ...
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... dead , when contrasted with the others , all alive from the con- tinual rising of trout . In a few hours I filled my kreel , ( a pretty large one ) , and might easily have stocked it again , as the day was good for the fly , and the ...
... dead , when contrasted with the others , all alive from the con- tinual rising of trout . In a few hours I filled my kreel , ( a pretty large one ) , and might easily have stocked it again , as the day was good for the fly , and the ...
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Page 1 - Fortunately for mankind, as some counterbalance to that wretched love of novelty which originates in selfishness, shallowness, and conceit, and which especially characterizes all vulgar minds, there is set in the deeper places of the heart such affection for the signs of age that the eye is delighted even by injuries which are the work of time...
Page i - THE MOOR AND THE LOCH. Containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, with Wanderings over Crag and Correi, Flood and Fell. By JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq. Third Edition. 8vo, with Illustrations, 12s. 6d. SALMON-CASTS AND STRAY SHOTS: Being Fly-Leaves from the Note-Book of JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq., Author of * The Moor and the Loch,