Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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... half a chance in the argument . No doubt the country will be richer , the more it is cultivated ; but few Highlanders , with any touch of imagination , would barter , even for this , its former lonely and desolate grandeur , with its ...
... half a chance in the argument . No doubt the country will be richer , the more it is cultivated ; but few Highlanders , with any touch of imagination , would barter , even for this , its former lonely and desolate grandeur , with its ...
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... 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 shores ...
... 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 shores ...
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... half boat , half omnibus , which was to convey us across the isthmus , separating Loch Goil from Loch Fine . Creeping up one side of the hill at a tortoise pace , we rattled down the other at a gallop , by way of a change . A very small ...
... half boat , half omnibus , which was to convey us across the isthmus , separating Loch Goil from Loch Fine . Creeping up one side of the hill at a tortoise pace , we rattled down the other at a gallop , by way of a change . A very small ...
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... half pounds . We had intended to troll to the bay of old Castle Connal , eight miles down the loch , built , as Sandy says , by the Danes , but were obliged to defer it till next day . The bay which this castle commands is a famous ...
... half pounds . We had intended to troll to the bay of old Castle Connal , eight miles down the loch , built , as Sandy says , by the Danes , but were obliged to defer it till next day . The bay which this castle commands is a famous ...
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... 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 and milk like a dog ...
... 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 and milk like a dog ...
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