Miller's royal tourist handbook to the Highlands and Islands1877 |
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anchorage Ardnamurchan Argyll Ballachulish Balmacara basalt beautiful Bein boat Broadford built Cambrian sandstone Carsaig Castle Cave cavern chapel cliffs coach coast Columba contains salmon contains trout Coolins distance district Duart Dunvegan Earl east Eigg Eilean entrance feet high ferry Firth fishing forms fossils Glasgow Glen Glencoe gneiss harbour head of Loch Hebrides Highlands hills Hotel House Inveraray Inverness Iona island Isles Kerrera Kintail Kyle Akin land Lias limestone Loch Alsh Loch Buy Loch Carron Loch Coruisk Loch Duich Loch Etive Loch Maree Loch Scavaig Loch Torridon Lord Lorn Macdonald Maclean Macleod miles long mountains Oban Oolite Oran passed Permission picturesque Portree proprietor Quiraing Raasay railway reached rises river road rock route ruins runs Salen scenery Scotland sea trout seen Shiel shore of Loch side Skye Sligachan Sound of Mull southern Staffa steamer stone strata stream Tobermory Torridon tourist Uist village visited western westward
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165 ページ - Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can,'
80 ページ - Let fortune's gifts at random flee, They ne'er shall draw a wish frae me, Supremely blest wi
176 ページ - Unless the Fates are faithless grown, And prophet's voice be vain, Where'er is found this sacred stone, The Scottish race shall reign.
91 ページ - The hazel saplings lent their aid; And thus an airy point he won, Where, gleaming with the setting sun, One burnished sheet of living gold, Loch Katrine lay beneath him rolled, In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light; And mountains, that like giants stand, 218 To sentinel enchanted land.
91 ページ - The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its...
108 ページ - This was the pleasantest and most enjoyable expedition I ever made ; and the recollection of it will always be most agreeable to me, and increase my wish to make more ! Was so glad dear Louis (who is a charming companion) was with us.
138 ページ - ... for one human form wrapped in a plaid, and listens in vain for the bark of a shepherd's dog or the bleat of a lamb. Mile after mile the only sound that indicates life is the faint cry of a bird of prey from some storm-beaten pinnacle of rock. The progress of civilisation, which has turned so many wastes into fields yellow with harvests or gay with apple blossoms has only made Glencoe more desolate.
138 ページ - In the Gaelic tongue Glencoe signifies the Glen of Weeping ; and in truth that pass is the most dreary and melancholy of all the Scottish passes, the very Valley of the Shadow of Death. Mists and storms brood over it through the greater part of the finest summer; and even on those rare days when the sun is bright, and when there is no cloud in the sky, the impression made by the landscape is sad and awful.
41 ページ - FAR lone amang the Highland hills, "Midst Nature's wildest grandeur, By rocky dens, and woody glens, With weary steps I wander. The langsome way, the darksome day, The mountain mist sae rainy, Are nought to me when gaun to thee, Sweet lass o
143 ページ - Is it time for you," he said, " to be sleeping, when your father is murdered on his own hearth?" Thus roused, they hurried out in great terror, and heard throughout the glen, wherever there was a place of human habitation, the shouts of the murderers, the report of the muskets, the screams of the wounded, and the groans of the dying.