Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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... 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 ...
... 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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... chance of human company at his morning meal . Now and then an Alpine hare would canter lazily away , or raise herself upon her hind legs to listen , moving about her inquisitive ears . For some miles we walked along the road which ...
... chance of human company at his morning meal . Now and then an Alpine hare would canter lazily away , or raise herself upon her hind legs to listen , moving about her inquisitive ears . For some miles we walked along the road which ...
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... chance of a shot . We now struck off to the left , as if walking away from the eyrie . Having taken a long circuit , we edged in , till we got a slope of the mountain between us and our quarry . This achieved , we walked rapidly round ...
... chance of a shot . We now struck off to the left , as if walking away from the eyrie . Having taken a long circuit , we edged in , till we got a slope of the mountain between us and our quarry . This achieved , we walked rapidly round ...
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... chance with one as with two , although sometimes the fish may be a little longer in stirring . Don't be too certain that you have detected the most killing fly because fish take it well one day , as salmon , in some moods , will rise at ...
... chance with one as with two , although sometimes the fish may be a little longer in stirring . Don't be too certain that you have detected the most killing fly because fish take it well one day , as salmon , in some moods , will rise at ...
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... chance with the smallest salmon hook . An excellent fly for some light summer waters is a ptarmigan wing , dull yellow , or dark green body , and a hackle half black and half red . This is first - rate for large sea - trout . the Echaig ...
... chance with the smallest salmon hook . An excellent fly for some light summer waters is a ptarmigan wing , dull yellow , or dark green body , and a hackle half black and half red . This is first - rate for large sea - trout . the Echaig ...
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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,