The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland: Containing Descriptions of Their Scenery and Antiquities, with an Account of the Political History ... Present Condition of the People, &c. ... Founded on a Series of Annual Journeys Between the Years 1811 and 1821 ... in Letters to Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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ancient antiquaries antiquity appears Barra Barra Head beautiful Benbecula better boat Cæsar called castle cattle Celts chapels chief churches circle Clans cliffs coast cultivation dark derived discover Donald Druidical Druidism Druids effect equally farms feet fish formerly Gaelic Godred Gothic Haco Highland horse imagine inhabitants Iona Isles kelp Kilda King king of Mann Kyle labour lake land least less Lewis Loch Loch Carron Lord Mann manner Martin matter ment miles mountains nature nearly neighbours never North Rona North Uist Norway Norwegian Olave Orkney peat political Portree possessed potatoes present probably produce proprietors prove remark rendered respect rocks round rude says Scandinavian scarcely Scotland Scottish seems sheep Shiant Isles shore Somerlid South Uist Staffa stones Stornoway tenants thing tion Toland true Western Islands Western Isles whole wind
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Page 315 - old age in the subterranean retreat of his better days. " But the weary wind began to rise, and the sea began * to rout." It was time to think of leaving a place where a few hours of neglect might have detained us the whole 'winter. The charms of pensive contemplation would have
Page 249 - and from him also we learn the regard which they paid to the " viscum," which is supposed to be our misletoe. Of this plant he says, that it was " rarum admodum inventu, et, repertum, magna religione petitur, et ante omnia sexta luna.
Page 282 - that the object of marriage is to produce a triangle. Such is the harmonic law of three, imprinted on the prolongation of the universe. " Lee Grecs, qui ont écrit tant de phrases et si peu de choses
Page 266 - country of Lewis says that the saids pigmies has been eirded (buried) thair. Maney men of divers countreys has delvit up dieplie the flure of the little kirke, and I myself amanges the leave (rest), and
Page 14 - there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm.
Page 300 - porque no habéis de hacer otra cosa que buscar un libro que les acode todos ; " if you could find •one. You know also,
Page 315 - gregarious animal, it is only by cultivation that he learns to delight in extended society. Kenneth had few ideas to communicate ; and his family, apparently, had none at all. And after all, as Montaigne says, " Sur le plus beau trône du monde on n'est jamais assis que sur son cul.
Page 481 - and, at every step, some enormous fragment, tumbled down from the precipices, obstructs the way ; while many are poised in such a manner on the very edges of the precipitous rocks on which they have fallen, as to render it
Page 474 - chequered stockings, and thus a ship was at length generated, not much unlike those of the heroic ages, the memorials of which still exist in the sculptures of lona. It was now two o'clock ; and, in consequence of this unexampled activity, in seven hours more than a frigate would have required, we were ready for sea. I knew it was a four
Page 300 - citación de los autores, que los otros libros tienen, que en el vuestro os faltan ; " as I have been told. You know how easy the matter is;