Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and SkyeLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 - 404 páginas |
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... Winds ― • 139 CHAP . XV . An early Start . - Interesting Geological Locality . - Paleozoic Basin.- Animal Matter . - Fossil Fish . - The Asterolepis - Hugh Miller's Re- searches . Huge Russian Ganoid . - Modern versus Fossil Fish ...
... Winds ― • 139 CHAP . XV . An early Start . - Interesting Geological Locality . - Paleozoic Basin.- Animal Matter . - Fossil Fish . - The Asterolepis - Hugh Miller's Re- searches . Huge Russian Ganoid . - Modern versus Fossil Fish ...
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... Wind - bags . Beautiful Scenery . Shiel River . Salmon Pool . — Catching a White Trout . — Travelling Companions . Aberdeenshire Farmers . - Grand Mountains . — Insur- CONTENTS . xix rection in Favour of the Stuarts . xviii CONTENTS .
... Wind - bags . Beautiful Scenery . Shiel River . Salmon Pool . — Catching a White Trout . — Travelling Companions . Aberdeenshire Farmers . - Grand Mountains . — Insur- CONTENTS . xix rection in Favour of the Stuarts . xviii CONTENTS .
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... I advise the tourist not to undertake the voyage if there be a dense fog , or a strong east wind blowing , for your steamer may come to grief , like the " Duke of Rich- mond " which was wrecked on the coast near Aberdeen 31.
... I advise the tourist not to undertake the voyage if there be a dense fog , or a strong east wind blowing , for your steamer may come to grief , like the " Duke of Rich- mond " which was wrecked on the coast near Aberdeen 31.
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... wind that blew being off the land the sea was fortunately very tranquil , otherwise the night would have been full of horrors , for we were packed in the cabin almost as close as we could stand ; crowded steamers from Edinburgh to the ...
... wind that blew being off the land the sea was fortunately very tranquil , otherwise the night would have been full of horrors , for we were packed in the cabin almost as close as we could stand ; crowded steamers from Edinburgh to the ...
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... wind is high and every mesh is tenanted by a herring , the labour of raising the nets , which appear as they are drawn out of the water like sheets of bur- nished silver , is excessive . The labour is , moreover , always increased when ...
... wind is high and every mesh is tenanted by a herring , the labour of raising the nets , which appear as they are drawn out of the water like sheets of bur- nished silver , is excessive . The labour is , moreover , always increased when ...
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Aberdeen amidst ancient animal Assynt Barrock beautiful Ben Stack birds boat Brawl breakfast Caithness Cape Wrath castle cathedral CHAP charming Church cliffs cloth coast Cuchullins curious deer dog-cart Duke Dunvegan Earl favour feet Firth fish fishery fossil gillies glen Golspie grilse grouse head Highland hill History Inverness island John Kirkwall Kyle lake land lighthouse Loch Assynt Loch Coruisk Loch Eriboll Loch Scavaig Loch Watten Lord lovely miles mist moorland moors mountains night numerous Orcadian Orkneys passed Pentland Firth Plates pleasant Portree Post 8vo precipices Quiraing rain Reay river road rocks round salmon sandstone scenery Scotch Scotland Scourie Second Edition shooting shore Sinclair Skye Sligachan sport Square crown 8vo steamer stone Stromness Sutherland Thurso Thurso Bay tion tourists traveller trout vols walk walls weather Wick wild wind Wood Woodcuts
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