The Wild HebridesLongman, [and others], 1859 - 97 ページ |
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... porphyry ; of the North- east , a very tiny group of old red sand , which they partake , with the wild coast of Ross , even to Cape Wrath ; the North - western are of gneiss . It is now blithe July , the fittest season for flights in ...
... porphyry ; of the North- east , a very tiny group of old red sand , which they partake , with the wild coast of Ross , even to Cape Wrath ; the North - western are of gneiss . It is now blithe July , the fittest season for flights in ...
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... porphyry , from which it rises 500 feet : its apex is , however , 1340 feet from the sea level . There were beneath this Ossianic pillar two stone cairns : one , that of St. Martin , the other of St. Mary ; the first eighty - seven ...
... porphyry , from which it rises 500 feet : its apex is , however , 1340 feet from the sea level . There were beneath this Ossianic pillar two stone cairns : one , that of St. Martin , the other of St. Mary ; the first eighty - seven ...
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... - CALF , IRISH AND GAELIC ) , RUM , almost as majestic as Arran in its outline ; the porphyry pinnacles of Halival or Benmhor , and Haskival , Ais- gobhal , rising 2320 feet into the clouds , the. RUM . 57 RONIN, RON (SEA-CALF, IRISH AND ..
... - CALF , IRISH AND GAELIC ) , RUM , almost as majestic as Arran in its outline ; the porphyry pinnacles of Halival or Benmhor , and Haskival , Ais- gobhal , rising 2320 feet into the clouds , the. RUM . 57 RONIN, RON (SEA-CALF, IRISH AND ..
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... porphyry and sienite . The route leads by Broadford water , and by Kilchrish , the black lochs lying off on the left . There are , ' tis true , burnies to be waded , but this is little trouble , and they form a pure bath for the feet ...
... porphyry and sienite . The route leads by Broadford water , and by Kilchrish , the black lochs lying off on the left . There are , ' tis true , burnies to be waded , but this is little trouble , and they form a pure bath for the feet ...
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... porphyry . Southward of Raasay House , in the fairest part of the islet , is the seemingly inacces- sible and overhanging ruin of Castle Brochel , perched , like an eyrie , on its conglomerate rock , with which it seems incorporate ...
... porphyry . Southward of Raasay House , in the fairest part of the islet , is the seemingly inacces- sible and overhanging ruin of Castle Brochel , perched , like an eyrie , on its conglomerate rock , with which it seems incorporate ...
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Argyl ascend Atlantic basalt beauty beneath Blaven blocks boat bosom Broadford Brochel brow Cailleach cairn callit Canna Carsaig Castle causeway Cave cavern chapel cliffs Coll Colonsay Columba columnar cone Corrie Corrievrechan Craignish Crashinish cross Cuchullins Danish dark Dean deep deer display Duart Duin Duntulm eccentric Erische Erraid Erse Etive feet high Fladda floating Gigha gillean Glamaig Glen green grey Hebrides Highland hills holy Icolmkill Inimore Iona islet iyle Kerrera kings lake land legend Loch Coruisk Loch Etive Lord Lorn lying MacLean magnificent majestic Martin McDonald McLeod Mhor mighty miles long moored Morvern mound mountain Mull northern ocean once Pennant Portree purple quaint quartz quhilk Quiraig Raasa relics rich ridge rising rock rolling round ruined sand Scarba Scavig scene schist Scuir shadows shore Skye Sleat Sligachan solemn Somerled southern Staffa stone Storr Taisch ther tomb Treshinish Uist Ulva vassals wild wildest yonder
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90 ページ - Placed far amid the melancholy main, (Whether it be lone fancy him beguiles ; Or that aerial beings sometimes deign To stand embodied, to our senses plain) Sees on the naked hill, or valley low, The whilst in ocean Phoebus dips his wain, A vast assembly moving to and fro: Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show.
33 ページ - Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolonged and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
62 ページ - The moon is up, and yet it is not night — Sunset divides the sky with her — a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be Melted to one vast Iris of the West, Where the day joins the past Eternity; While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air...
31 ページ - Romance does not often exhibit a scene that strikes the imagination more than this little desert, in these depths of western obscurity, occupied not by a gross herdsman, or amphibious fisherman, but by a gentleman and two ladies, of high birth, polished manners, and elegant conversation...
16 ページ - Fitz-Eustace' heart felt closely pent ; As if to give his rapture vent, The spur he to his charger lent, And raised his bridle hand, And, making demi-volte in air, Cried, " Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land !" The Lindesay smiled his joy to see; Nor Marmion's frown repress'd his glee.
45 ページ - Or thither where beneath the show'ry west The mighty kings of three fair realms are laid : Once foes, perhaps, together now they rest. No slaves revere them, and no wars invade : Yet frequent now, at midnight's solemn hour...
43 ページ - Erishe cronickells, that Coelus king of Norroway commandit his nobils to take his bodey and burey it in Colmkill, if it chancit him to die in the iles...
42 ページ - Within this ile of Colmkill, there is ane sanctuary also, or kirkzaird, callit in Erische Religoran, quhilk is a very fair kirkzaird, and weill biggit about with staine and...
42 ページ - Colmkill, there is ane sanctuary also, or kirkzaird, callit in Erische Religoran, quhilk is a very fair kirkzaird, and weill biggit about with staine and lyme. Into this sanctuary ther is three tombes of staine, formit like little chapels, with ane braid gray marble or quhin staine in the gavill of ilk ane of the tombes. In the staine of the ane tombe there is wretten in Latin letters, Tumulus Begum Scotia, that is, The tombe ore grave of the Scotts Kinges.
92 ページ - ... own handeywark, within this kirk the ancients of that countrey of the Lewis says, that the said Pigmies has been eirdit thair. Maney men of divers countreys has delvit upe dieplie the flure of the litle kirke, and i myselve amanges the leave, and hes found in it, deepe under the erthe, certain banes and round heads of wonderfull little quantity, allegit to be the banes of the said Pigmies, quhilk may be lykely, according to sundry historys that we reid of the Pigmies : but i leave this far of...