Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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... mornings of life's early spring . My brothers and I had been brought up in the country , and were hunters from our childhood . Our couple of terriers were game as flint , and yet they were never able to draw a badger from his natural ...
... mornings of life's early spring . My brothers and I had been brought up in the country , and were hunters from our childhood . Our couple of terriers were game as flint , and yet they were never able to draw a badger from his natural ...
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... morning pursued her way through the hills . A shepherd soon after dis- covered the poor tinker , lying stark and gory upon his cold hard bed . The woman was taken up , but dismissed for want of evidence . Life was held light in the High ...
... morning pursued her way through the hills . A shepherd soon after dis- covered the poor tinker , lying stark and gory upon his cold hard bed . The woman was taken up , but dismissed for want of evidence . Life was held light in the High ...
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... shoulder more round than any I have ever taken ; on which account he is now stuffed , and may be seen at Fenton's , in George Street , Edinburgh . C I took the road at five next morning , to A PLEA FOR THE WASTES . 25.
... shoulder more round than any I have ever taken ; on which account he is now stuffed , and may be seen at Fenton's , in George Street , Edinburgh . C I took the road at five next morning , to A PLEA FOR THE WASTES . 25.
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John Colquhoun. I took the road at five next morning , to be in time for the Inverary steam - boat , which left at seven ; but , even at that early hour , poor Sandy , with his fragment of a hat in his hand , was waiting at the " brae ...
John Colquhoun. I took the road at five next morning , to be in time for the Inverary steam - boat , which left at seven ; but , even at that early hour , poor Sandy , with his fragment of a hat in his hand , was waiting at the " brae ...
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... morning of my last day's fishing of the Echaig , I hooked a four - pound sea - trout on my bob , and when the fish was quite spent , the trail - fly fastened on a rotten stump . I waded in to try to disengage it , and in so doing ...
... morning of my last day's fishing of the Echaig , I hooked a four - pound sea - trout on my bob , and when the fish was quite spent , the trail - fly fastened on a rotten stump . I waded in to try to disengage it , and in so doing ...
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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,