A History of the County of Inverness (Mainland)W. Blackwood and sons, 1897 - 376 pàgines Maps on two folded leaves in pockets. Library's copy lacks one map. |
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A History of the County of Inverness (Mainland) James Cameron Lees Previsualització no disponible - 2012 |
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Pàgina 220 - An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation.
Pàgina 191 - It was situated in the face of a very rough, high and rocky mountain, called Letternilichk, still a part of Benalder, full of great stones and crevices, and some scattered wood interspersed. The habitation called the Cage, in the face of that mountain, was within a small thick bush of wood.
Pàgina 229 - I sought for merit wherever it was to be found. It is my boast, that I was the first minister who looked for it, and found it, in the mountains of the North.
Pàgina 201 - I have not, nor shall have, in my possession any gun, pistol or arm whatsoever, and never use tartan plaid, or any part of the Highland garb, and if I do so may I be cursed in my undertakings, family and property ; may I never see my wife and children, father, mother...
Pàgina 191 - ... levelled with earth and gravel. There were betwixt the trees, growing naturally on their own roots, some stakes fixed in the earth, which, with the, trees, were interwoven with ropes, made of heath and birch twigs...
Pàgina 154 - Highlanders is far from being acceptable to the eye: with them a small part of the plaid, which is not so large as the former, is set in folds and girt round the waist, to make of it a short petticoat that reaches half way down the thigh, and the rest is brought over the shoulders, and then fastened before, below the .neck, often with a fork, and sometimes with a -bodkin or sharpened piece of stick...
Pàgina 218 - A hut is constructed with loose stones, ranged for the most part with some tendency to circularity. It must be placed where the wind cannot act upon it with violence, because it has no cement; and where the water will run easily away, because it has no floor but the naked ground.
Pàgina 192 - This whole fabric hung, as it were, by a large tree, which reclined from the one end all along the roof to the other, and which gave it the name of the Cage ; and by chance there happened to be two stones at a small distance from one another, in the side next the precipice, resembling the pillars of a chimney where the fire was placed.
Pàgina 200 - AB do swear and as I shall answer to God at the great day of judgment...
Pàgina 164 - There entered the tent a tall youth of a most agreeable aspect, in a plain black coat with a plain shirt, not very clean, and a...