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... some thickly studding every jagged projection , and others riding the swelling billow , their bright plumage glancing in the beams of the morning sun . My greater favourite , however , is the wild and lonely mountain , with its ...
... some thickly studding every jagged projection , and others riding the swelling billow , their bright plumage glancing in the beams of the morning sun . My greater favourite , however , is the wild and lonely mountain , with its ...
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We left the Bromie - law at seven o'clock on a fresh sunny morning , and paddled merrily down the Clyde . The fat rosy steward , with his quaint face of good - nature , was in high feather , and frequent in his assurances that we might ...
We left the Bromie - law at seven o'clock on a fresh sunny morning , and paddled merrily down the Clyde . The fat rosy steward , with his quaint face of good - nature , was in high feather , and frequent in his assurances that we might ...
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ferry - boat and forward them next morning by the post * to Cladich , where I hoped to bivouac for a few days after my eagle campaign . Having dined with my two agreeable companions , we hired an open carriage , and drove to Cladich ...
ferry - boat and forward them next morning by the post * to Cladich , where I hoped to bivouac for a few days after my eagle campaign . Having dined with my two agreeable companions , we hired an open carriage , and drove to Cladich ...
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A male henharrier was flitting stealthily above the heather , seeking his breakfast where it would be easily found , with small chance of human company at his morning meal . Now and then an Alpine hare would canter lazily away ...
A male henharrier was flitting stealthily above the heather , seeking his breakfast where it would be easily found , with small chance of human company at his morning meal . Now and then an Alpine hare would canter lazily away ...
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... bait , provisions , and pea - jacket , were making for Port Sonachan Quay , where I had directed them to meet me . The morning was colder , the wind had changed 66 99 from west to east , " a bad airt " A PLEA FOR THE WASTES . 17.
... bait , provisions , and pea - jacket , were making for Port Sonachan Quay , where I had directed them to meet me . The morning was colder , the wind had changed 66 99 from west to east , " a bad airt " A PLEA FOR THE WASTES . 17.
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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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