Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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... once only served for pasture to the hardy black cattle , the unhoused hirsel of the hills . Thriving fields of yellow grain , and glancing sickles , and merry voices , swelling the autumn gale , now enliven those wastes once the chosen ...
... once only served for pasture to the hardy black cattle , the unhoused hirsel of the hills . Thriving fields of yellow grain , and glancing sickles , and merry voices , swelling the autumn gale , now enliven those wastes once the chosen ...
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... once relapsed into the cool and wary hunter . Creeping forward with prompti- tude and decision , he knew , to an inch , where to look for the eyrie among all that fantastic chaos of rocks . Beckoning me to advance , he showed the outer ...
... once relapsed into the cool and wary hunter . Creeping forward with prompti- tude and decision , he knew , to an inch , where to look for the eyrie among all that fantastic chaos of rocks . Beckoning me to advance , he showed the outer ...
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... once a strong bony man , and piqued himself upon being one of the best wrestlers in the country . Now his eye is dim and filmy , much the colour of a boiled onion , and his athletic arm is paralytic and weak as a child's . I might have ...
... once a strong bony man , and piqued himself upon being one of the best wrestlers in the country . Now his eye is dim and filmy , much the colour of a boiled onion , and his athletic arm is paralytic and weak as a child's . I might have ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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... will at once perceive the places where fish are most likely to harbour , but the misfortune is , that those casts which appear the most Z certain may sometimes deceive , while there are particular nooks 30 SALMON ANGLING .
... will at once perceive the places where fish are most likely to harbour , but the misfortune is , that those casts which appear the most Z certain may sometimes deceive , while there are particular nooks 30 SALMON ANGLING .
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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,