 | Stirling town - 1812 - 326 pages
...farms, from the mere force of habit, pass the bridge with little emotion, even while the spray, in a high wind, wets their clothes : and yet the very act...hand, the windings of the glen, the gloomy precipices around him, the blackness of the pools below, and the roaring of the different and successive falls.... | |
 | 1817 - 290 pages
...act of looking down when there is s flood in the water, must appal a stranger, unless his nerves he uncommonly strong, by reason of the altitude of his...hand, the windings of the glen, the gloomy precipices around him, the blackness of the pools helow, and the roaring of the different and successive falls."s... | |
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... high wind, wets their clothes : and yet the very act of looking down when there is a flood in the water, must appal a stranger, unless his nerves be uncommonly strong, by reason of the altitude of his situation, the deepness and narrowness of the... 