Letters from a gentleman in the north of Scotland to his friend in London [by E. Burt].Ogle, Duncan, and Company, 1822 - 370 pagina's |
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Pagina 15 - Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Pagina 133 - You may guess by the introduction, at the contents of the volume. Few go away sober at any time; and for the greatest part of his guests, in the conclusion, they cannot go at all.
Pagina 4 - The Highlands are but little known even to the inhabitants of the low country of Scotland, for they have ever dreaded the difficulties and dangers of travelling among the mountains; and, when some extraordinary occasion has obliged any one of them to such a progress , he has , generally speaking, made bis testament before he set out, as though he were entering upon a long and dangerous sea-voyage, wherein it was very doubtful if he should ever return.
Pagina 5 - ... very doubtful if he should ever return. But to the people of England, excepting some few, and those chiefly the soldiery, the Highlands are hardly known at all: for there has been less, that I know of, written upon the subject, than of either of the Indies ; and even that little which has been said, conveys no idea...
Pagina 307 - Children about her, some quite, and others almost, naked, by a little Peat Fire, in the Middle of the Hut ; and over the Fire-Place was a small Hole in the Roof for a Chimney. The Floor was common Earth, very uneven, and no where Dry, but near the Fire and in the Corners, where no Foot had carried the muddy Dirt from without Doors. The Skeleton of the Hut was formed of small crooked Timber, but the Beam for the Roof was large out of all Proportion. This is to render the Weight of the whole more fit...
Pagina 313 - I mounted on horseback; only, for want of something more proper for breakfast, I took up with a little brandy, water, sugar, and yolks of eggs, beat up together; which I think they call Old man's milk. I was now provided with a new guide, for the skill of my first extended no further than this place: but this could speak no English, which I found afterwards to be an inconvenience. Second day. At mounting I received many compliments from my host; but the most earnest was, that common one of wishing...
Pagina 281 - ... their declivity, where the root of one tree is almost upon a line with the top of another: these are rarely seen in a journey; what there may be behind, out of all common ways, I do not know ; but none of them will pay for. felling and removing over rocks, bogs, precipices, and conveyance by rocky rivers, except such as are near the sea-coast, and hardly those, as I believe the York Buildings Company will find in the conclusion...
Pagina 47 - Clan-Interest or Clannish Terror. As for Example, if one of the Magistrates were a Cameron (for the Purpose), the Criminal (Cameron) must not suffer, if the Clan be desirous he should be saved. In short, they have several other Ties or Attachments one to another, which Occasion (like Money in the South) this Partiality. When any Ship in these Parts is bound for the West Indies, to be sure a neighbouring Chief, of whom none dares openly to complain, has several Thieves to send Prisoners to Town. It...
Pagina 28 - Leyth, or some utberis pairtis about the towne, nor to abydc the sycht of this schamefull vnclcanes and filthiness; quhilk is so universall and in such abundance throuch all the pairtis of this burgh, as in the heitt of somer it corruptis the air, and gives greit occasioun of seikness: and forder, this schamefull and beistlie filthines is most detestable and odious in the sicht of strangeris, quho beholding the same, ar constrayned with reassoun to gif oute mony disgracefull speiches aganis this...
Pagina 210 - Being there, one Sunday morning, with another English gentleman, when the minister came to that part of the Litany where the king is prayed for by name, the people all rose up as one, in contempt of it, and men and women set themselves about some trivial...