Miller's royal tourist handbook to the Highlands and Islands1877 |
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ancient Ardnamurchan Argyll Ballachulish basalt beautiful Bein boat Broadford built Callander Campbell canal Castle Cave chapel church cliffs coach coast contains salmon contains trout Coolins Crinan Dalmally distance district Earl east Edinburgh Eigg Eilean entrance erected feet Ferry Firth fishing fossils Glasgow to Oban Glen Glencoe harbour head of Loch Hebrides Highlands hills House Inveraray Inverness Iona island Islay Isles Kerrera Kintyre Kyle Akin lake land limestone Loch Alsh Loch Awe Loch Carron Loch Etive Loch Fyne Loch Lomond Loch Maree Loch Scavaig lofty Lord Lorn Macdonald Maclean Macleod miles long mountains Oban passed Permission picturesque pier Portree Prince proprietor Raasay railway reached residence rises river road rock route ruins runs scenery Scotland sea trout seen Shiel shore of Loch side Skye Sligachan Staffa steamer stone Strath stream Tarbert Tobermory Torridon tourist town Uist village visited western wooded
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Page 8 - Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can,'
Page 24 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 22 - Let fortune's gifts at random flee, They ne'er shall draw a wish frae me, Supremely blest wi
Page 33 - 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.
Page 18 - Unless the Fates are faithless grown, And prophet's voice be vain, Where'er is found this sacred stone, The Scottish race shall reign.
Page 36 - Highlanders, the belief that the punishment of the cruelty, oppression, or misconduct of an individual descended as a curse on his children, to the third and fourth generation, was not confined to the common people. All ranks were influenced by it, that if the curse did not fall upon the first or second generation, it would inevitably descend upon the succeeding.
Page 33 - 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...
Page 30 - ... 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 stormbeaten 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.
Page 2 - We may suppose a philosophical day-labourer, who is happy in reflecting that, by his labour, he contributes to the fertility of the earth, and to the support of his fellow-creatures; but we find no such philosophical day-labourer. A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind; but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.