Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye |
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Aberdeen amidst ancient animal ascend Assynt barrels Barrock beautiful Ben Hope Ben Stack birds boat Brawl breakfast Caithness Cape Wrath castle cathedral CHAP charming cliffs coast Cuchullins curious deer dog-cart Duke Dunrobin Dunvegan Earl favour feet Firth fish fishery forest fossil Gaelic geological gillies glen Golspie grand grilse Groat's grouse head Highland hill huge Inverness island isles Kirkwall Kyle lake land lighthouse Loch Assynt Loch Coruisk Loch Eriboll Loch Watten look Lord lovely miles mist moorland moors mountains night Orcadian Orkneys parish passed Pentland Firth pleasant Portree precipices Quiraing rain Reay river road rocks round ruins salmon sandstone scenery Scotch Scotland Scourie sheep Shiel shooting shore Skye Sligachan slopes sport Stack steamer stone Stromness summit Suther Sutherland Thurso Thurso Bay tourists traveller trout vast walk walls weather Wick wild wind wonder woods
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Page 202 - Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 391 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Page 309 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed...
Page 285 - The manner of the hunting is this : Five or six hundred men do rise early in the morning, and they do disperse themselves divers ways, and seven, eight, or ten miles compass, they do bring, or chase in, the deer in many herds, (two, three, or four hundred in a herd,) to such or such a place, as the noblemen shall appoint them ; then, when day is come, the lords and gentlemen of their companies...
Page 286 - Then after we had stayed there three hours or thereabouts, we might perceive the deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which being followed close by the...
Page 155 - in the not unimportant circumstance of size, the most ancient Co> lacanths yet known, instead of taking their places, agreeably to the demands of the development hypothesis, among the sprats, sticklebacks, and minnows of their class, took their place among its huge basking sharks, gigantic sturgeons, and bulky swordfishes. They were giants, not dwarfs.
Page 391 - The day was calm, the air was soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Page 309 - As the company are disabled one after another, two servants, who are all the while in waiting, take up the invalids with short poles in their chairs, as they sit (if not fallen down), and carry them to their beds; and still the hero holds out.
Page 263 - I counted thirty-two little trees; and one of them, judging from the rings of growth, had during twenty-six years tried to raise its head above the stems of the heath, and had failed. No wonder that, as soon as the land was enclosed, it became thickly clothed with vigorously growing young firs. Yet the heath was so extremely barren and so extensive that no one would ever have imagined that cattle would have so closely and effectually searched it for food. Here we...
Page 311 - was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat with their heads covered with blu» caps, the table being more than half furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little piece of sodden meat. And when the table was served, the servants did sit down with us ; but the upper mess, instead of porridge, had a pullet, with some prunes in the broth.