Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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... Sometimes feed on very minute substances . - Cream - coloured water ouzel . - Sing in hard frost · 57 LENNIE BURN . Its romantic beauty and waterfall . - Burn trout . - Offshoot from the burn . - Frogs . - Imprisoned trout and eels ...
... Sometimes feed on very minute substances . - Cream - coloured water ouzel . - Sing in hard frost · 57 LENNIE BURN . Its romantic beauty and waterfall . - Burn trout . - Offshoot from the burn . - Frogs . - Imprisoned trout and eels ...
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... sometimes both , and the pleasure has then been heightened by contrast . A slight sketch of one of these later excursions may perhaps be admissible here . In the recesses of the Black Mount Forest , very con- siderably above the level ...
... sometimes both , and the pleasure has then been heightened by contrast . A slight sketch of one of these later excursions may perhaps be admissible here . In the recesses of the Black Mount Forest , very con- siderably above the level ...
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... sometimes , however , had a battle in the air , but the looser form , the heavier movement , and the less daring spirit of the erne , made her no match for the mountaineer , who soon drove her screaming to her island . In the distance ...
... sometimes , however , had a battle in the air , but the looser form , the heavier movement , and the less daring spirit of the erne , made her no match for the mountaineer , who soon drove her screaming to her island . In the distance ...
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... sometimes a large herd would saunter past at a slow walk . Occasionally we saw their profiles on the crests of the mountains , or at feed , dotted along some distant correi , in appearance no bigger than roes . Peter had been ...
... sometimes a large herd would saunter past at a slow walk . Occasionally we saw their profiles on the crests of the mountains , or at feed , dotted along some distant correi , in appearance no bigger than roes . Peter had been ...
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... was again at the oar , and I had fair play . The ferox bored like a harpooned whale ; sometimes he would change his course and go down to the bottom , taking forty 66 yards of line , which he made swirl through the 20 CORRACH - BAH ; OR ,
... was again at the oar , and I had fair play . The ferox bored like a harpooned whale ; sometimes he would change his course and go down to the bottom , taking forty 66 yards of line , which he made swirl through the 20 CORRACH - BAH ; OR ,
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