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BY JOHN COLQUHOUN , ESQ . , " " THE MOOR AND THE LOCH . " AUTHOR OF 200 " There the light of evening lies Longer than in Southern skies ; There the dreary dark pine woods Frown o'er watery solitudes . " LONDON : JOHN MURRAY , ALBEMARLE ...
BY JOHN COLQUHOUN , ESQ . , " " THE MOOR AND THE LOCH . " AUTHOR OF 200 " There the light of evening lies Longer than in Southern skies ; There the dreary dark pine woods Frown o'er watery solitudes . " LONDON : JOHN MURRAY , ALBEMARLE ...
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Hatch in low bushes on lonely waste ground . - Young have no ring . — The river ouzel also a bird of solitude in spring . - Frequents the mountain burn and moor loch . - Comes down in winter to larger streams . Congregate at that time .
Hatch in low bushes on lonely waste ground . - Young have no ring . — The river ouzel also a bird of solitude in spring . - Frequents the mountain burn and moor loch . - Comes down in winter to larger streams . Congregate at that time .
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The subsoil plough , tile - draining , and all the ingenious etceteras of modern invention , have reclaimed many a bleak and barren moor which once only served for pasture to the hardy black cattle , the unhoused hirsel of the hills .
The subsoil plough , tile - draining , and all the ingenious etceteras of modern invention , have reclaimed many a bleak and barren moor which once only served for pasture to the hardy black cattle , the unhoused hirsel of the hills .
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My greater favourite , however , is the wild and lonely mountain , with its crags , its bare heath , its solitary moor - loch , and above all the eyrie of * The white - tailed eagle , or erne , not unfrequently hatches on the ...
My greater favourite , however , is the wild and lonely mountain , with its crags , its bare heath , its solitary moor - loch , and above all the eyrie of * The white - tailed eagle , or erne , not unfrequently hatches on the ...
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I was now gay as Peter , and , while we tramped over moor and moss , I made him repeat his forest tales . I found that the " extraordinary feat " he had so minutely described , belonged to the night - jar , which bird , however , is ...
I was now gay as Peter , and , while we tramped over moor and moss , I made him repeat his forest tales . I found that the " extraordinary feat " he had so minutely described , belonged to the night - jar , which bird , however , is ...
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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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