A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of EuropeRoberts Brothers, 1867 - 318 páginas A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe by John Macgregor, first published in 1867, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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Términos y frases comunes
APPENDIX baggage bank Bay of Biscay boat boat's bottle boys breakers breakfast breeze Bremgarten bridge Brigach canal canoe canoeist carried channel course crowd Danube dark day's deep Donaueschingen England English eyes fast feet fish floating France French German hills horse Illfurth inches ladies lake Lake of Lucerne LAKE ZUG land look luggage Madame Clicquot mast Meuse miles mind morning Moselle mountains never night once paddle passed pleasant pleasure pretty pulled quiet railway rapids rest Reuss Rheinfelden Rhine river road Rob Roy rocks round rushing safe sail scenery seemed seen shallow shore side soon sort steamer stones stop strange stream sure Switzerland Thames things Titisee took tour tourist town traveller trees turn Tuttlingen village Vosges mountains voyage wading Waldshut walk waves wind wine wood
Pasajes populares
Página 106 - AVENGE, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept Thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Página 310 - ' written with pencil, but scarcely legible," read : " The ship Kent is on fire, Elizabeth, Joanna, and myself, commit our spirits into the hands of our blessed Redeemer ; his grace enables us to be quite composed in the awful prospect of entering into eternity.
Página 5 - ... keel. A paddle seven feet long, with a blade at each end, and a lug sail and jib, were the means of propulsion ; and a pretty blue silk Union Jack was the only ornament.
Página 219 - Kent East Indiaman, by fire, in the Bay of Biscay, on the 1st of March, 1325, by a Passenger," supposed to be Major Macgregor.
Página 249 - all I could to recollect; but no ! I had not seen the boys, and so the women went away distracted, and left me sorrowful. But suddenly, when toiling in the middle of a very difficult piece of rock-work, lowering the boat [and therefore no longer trying to remember], I remembered having seen those boys, so I ran over the fields after the anxious mamma, and soon assured her that the children had been safe an hour ago.
Página 2 - ... For now, as he sits in his little bark, he looks forward, and not backward. He sees all his course, and the scenery besides. With one powerful sweep of his paddle he can instantly turn the canoe, when only a foot distant from fatal destruction. He can steer within an inch in a narrow place, or...
Página 2 - The very things which bother the pair oar become cheery excitements to the voyager in the canoe. For now as he sits in his little bark, he looks forward and not backward. He sees all his course and the scenery besides.
Página 3 - Again, the canoe is safer than a rowing-boat, because you sit so low in it, and never require to shift your place or lose hold of the paddle ; while for comfort during long hours, for days and weeks of hard work, it is evidently the best, because you lean all the time against a swinging backboard, and the moment you rest the paddle on your lap you are as much at ease as in an arm-chair ; so that, while drifting along with the current or the wind, you can gaze around, and eat or read or chat with...
Página 66 - Liege are hardly surpassed in beauty by any river scenery in N. Europe : rock, wood, and water have done their utmost, yet the scenery is not properly mountainous. The Meuse has been compared to the Wye ; but is even more romantic than the English river.
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