Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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... HILL POACHER . English poaching . - Scotch lowland poachers . - Highland poachers . -Their sporting propensities . - Family likeness . - Juvenile poachers . A female poacher . - Gregor More . - A poaching minister . His exploits ...
... HILL POACHER . English poaching . - Scotch lowland poachers . - Highland poachers . -Their sporting propensities . - Family likeness . - Juvenile poachers . A female poacher . - Gregor More . - A poaching minister . His exploits ...
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... hill hare . - Grouse . - The effect of food on their colour.- Arts of ground - hatching birds to decoy from their young . — The Royston crow . - Eagle's love to her young . — A pattern to step- mothers . Large autumnal dragon - fly ...
... hill hare . - Grouse . - The effect of food on their colour.- Arts of ground - hatching birds to decoy from their young . — The Royston crow . - Eagle's love to her young . — A pattern to step- mothers . Large autumnal dragon - fly ...
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... hills . Thriving fields of yellow grain , and glancing sickles , and merry voices , swelling the autumn gale , now enliven those wastes once the chosen haunts of the bittern and the whaup . Many of the lords of the heather , themselves ...
... hills . Thriving fields of yellow grain , and glancing sickles , and merry voices , swelling the autumn gale , now enliven those wastes once the chosen haunts of the bittern and the whaup . Many of the lords of the heather , themselves ...
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... hill rises abruptly from its side . An eyrie of the golden eagle is placed on a shelf of rock half - way up , and I have enjoyed the rare luxury of seeing both eyries at the same moment , and both queens in un- disturbed possession of ...
... hill rises abruptly from its side . An eyrie of the golden eagle is placed on a shelf of rock half - way up , and I have enjoyed the rare luxury of seeing both eyries at the same moment , and both queens in un- disturbed possession of ...
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... hill - fox , the wild - cat , and the marten are not yet banished from those desolate precipices . It is not to be inferred , however , that the deer - forest is also a preserve for vermin . There is many a splendid hunt after the ...
... hill - fox , the wild - cat , and the marten are not yet banished from those desolate precipices . It is not to be inferred , however , that the deer - forest is also a preserve for vermin . There is many a splendid hunt after the ...
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Alpine hare angler appeared bait bank barn owl bird boat cast Castle chance Cladich colour Crap-na-Gower deer distance diving ducks dun-birds eagle eggs eyrie favourite feed fish flew flies flock foot forest frequent frost gamekeeper ground grouse gulls hatched head heard Highland hill hook Inch Moan Inverary island keeper killed Kilmun land legs Loch Awe Loch Goil Loch Lomond Loch Long look mallard miles moors morillon morning nearly nest never night numbers once otter pair perched Peter pheasants poacher pool poor pounds prey ring-dove river rock rose Rossarden salmon Sandy scarcely sea-trout seen seized seldom shallow shoot shore shot side snipe sometimes soon sport spring stalking stoat stream summer tawny owl took tree trolling trout walk watched watchers weather white owl wigeon wind wing winter woodcock yards young
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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,