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However , upon thinking over his strange proposal , it struck me that it was a plain , matter - of - fact , pounds , shillings and pence view of the subject ; and , if I was fairly attacked upon that point , I should not stand half a ...
However , upon thinking over his strange proposal , it struck me that it was a plain , matter - of - fact , pounds , shillings and pence view of the subject ; and , if I was fairly attacked upon that point , I should not stand half a ...
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In the recesses of the Black Mount Forest , very considerably above the level of the sea , there is a muirland lochan , about a mile long by half a mile broad , called in Gaelic , Lochan Nahachalach ; and a little to the east ...
In the recesses of the Black Mount Forest , very considerably above the level of the sea , there is a muirland lochan , about a mile long by half a mile broad , called in Gaelic , Lochan Nahachalach ; and a little to the east ...
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A short time brought us alongside of its primitive quay , where we deposited ourselves and luggage in the mongrel kind of a coach , half boat , half omnibus , which was to convey us across the isthmus , separating Loch Goil from Loch ...
A short time brought us alongside of its primitive quay , where we deposited ourselves and luggage in the mongrel kind of a coach , half boat , half omnibus , which was to convey us across the isthmus , separating Loch Goil from Loch ...
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We came over no large ones , however , and the three brought into the boat were only four , three , and two and a half pounds . We had intended to troll to the bay of old Castle Connal , eight miles down the loch , built , as Sandy says ...
We came over no large ones , however , and the three brought into the boat were only four , three , and two and a half pounds . We had intended to troll to the bay of old Castle Connal , eight miles down the loch , built , as Sandy says ...
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I once brought home a half - grown cub , which had wandered from the hole , rolling it up in my jacket . ( What will not boys do ? ) It soon became so tame , as to eat beetles and humble - bees from our hands , and would lap up porridge ...
I once brought home a half - grown cub , which had wandered from the hole , rolling it up in my jacket . ( What will not boys do ? ) It soon became so tame , as to eat beetles and humble - bees from our hands , and would lap up porridge ...
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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,
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| Title | Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell" |
| Author | John Colquhoun |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1849 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 20 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 185 pages |
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