Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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... poor fellow , to keep up our spirits by telling a tale of every wood , hill , or rock we crept slowly past . " There's the badger's rock , sir ; he has never left it for the last fifty year . " The grey hermit of the rock called me back ...
... poor fellow , to keep up our spirits by telling a tale of every wood , hill , or rock we crept slowly past . " There's the badger's rock , sir ; he has never left it for the last fifty year . " The grey hermit of the rock called me back ...
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... poor Sandy all the time begging me never to heed it . " Sandy's whole heart was in the capture of the fish . His rod was by this time wound up , he was again at the oar , and I had fair play . The ferox bored like a harpooned whale ...
... poor Sandy all the time begging me never to heed it . " Sandy's whole heart was in the capture of the fish . His rod was by this time wound up , he was again at the oar , and I had fair play . The ferox bored like a harpooned whale ...
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... poor old Sandy , whose short breath effectually stopped his wild legends . We had nearly gained the summit , from which there is a distant view of the loch , when Johnny , who had sauntered on a few paces before , stopped suddenly , and ...
... poor old Sandy , whose short breath effectually stopped his wild legends . We had nearly gained the summit , from which there is a distant view of the loch , when Johnny , who had sauntered on a few paces before , stopped suddenly , and ...
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... 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- lands in those days , and soon little was said or thought about the poor lost ...
... 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- lands in those days , and soon little was said or thought about the poor lost ...
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... poor Sandy , with his fragment of a hat in his hand , was waiting at the " brae - fit " to wish me a " gude journey . " Having shaken him heartily by the hand , I turned my back , for a time , upon these cherished scenes of beauty ...
... poor Sandy , with his fragment of a hat in his hand , was waiting at the " brae - fit " to wish me a " gude journey . " Having shaken him heartily by the hand , I turned my back , for a time , upon these cherished scenes of beauty ...
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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,