Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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... hill and tangled wood , we struck into the bleak Loch Goil . A short time brought us alongside of its primitive quay , where we deposited ourselves and luggage in the mongrel kind of a coach , half boat , half omnibus , which was to ...
... hill and tangled wood , we struck into the bleak Loch Goil . A short time brought us alongside of its primitive quay , where we deposited ourselves and luggage in the mongrel kind of a coach , half boat , half omnibus , which was to ...
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... hill , after bringing the hen her breakfast . " He now whipped out his glass , and placing his back upon a hillock , and the glass upon his knee , looked long and anxiously through it . At last , jumping up , shutting the glass with a ...
... hill , after bringing the hen her breakfast . " He now whipped out his glass , and placing his back upon a hillock , and the glass upon his knee , looked long and anxiously through it . At last , jumping up , shutting the glass with a ...
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... 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 to my boyish days . The " brock - holes " in the oak wood - the traps ...
... 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 to my boyish days . The " brock - holes " in the oak wood - the traps ...
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... hills . The breeze had freshened . The squalls had settled into a steady gale , and we were upwards of eight miles from ... hill was studded with jagged rock and stone , and a more dreary path could hardly be imagined . Gloomy without ...
... hills . The breeze had freshened . The squalls had settled into a steady gale , and we were upwards of eight miles from ... hill was studded with jagged rock and stone , and a more dreary path could hardly be imagined . Gloomy without ...
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... hills . A shepherd soon after dis- covered the poor tinker , lying stark and gory upon his cold hard bed . The woman ... Hill , where the blithe mavis was pouring its evening melody from the topmost bough of many a tall pine or shadowy ...
... hills . A shepherd soon after dis- covered the poor tinker , lying stark and gory upon his cold hard bed . The woman ... Hill , where the blithe mavis was pouring its evening melody from the topmost bough of many a tall pine or shadowy ...
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