A Tour Through the Highlands of Scotland, and the Hebride Isles, in MDCCLXXXVI. |
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Page xxii
... distance of fix days failing from it , in the fkirts of the Frozen Ocean . * It was a place , according to him , which was neither earth , fea , nor air , but fomething like a compofition of * Some fuppofe the Thule of the ancients to ...
... distance of fix days failing from it , in the fkirts of the Frozen Ocean . * It was a place , according to him , which was neither earth , fea , nor air , but fomething like a compofition of * Some fuppofe the Thule of the ancients to ...
Page lv
... distance cannot distinguish the rock from the wall which is erected upon it . The base is washed on one fide by Loch Etive , and on the land - fide there is a fmall declivity . By means of these circumftances , this feat must have been ...
... distance cannot distinguish the rock from the wall which is erected upon it . The base is washed on one fide by Loch Etive , and on the land - fide there is a fmall declivity . By means of these circumftances , this feat must have been ...
Page xcvi
... distance of The Shetland Islands , 6 miles The Ferro Islands , And Iceland , 100 ditto 150 ditto 400 ditto The two first mentioned belong to Great Bri- tain ; the two laft to the Crown of Denmark . Leaving Dungsbay - Head , we enter ...
... distance of The Shetland Islands , 6 miles The Ferro Islands , And Iceland , 100 ditto 150 ditto 400 ditto The two first mentioned belong to Great Bri- tain ; the two laft to the Crown of Denmark . Leaving Dungsbay - Head , we enter ...
Page cxiii
... distance of feveral miles ; while the inhabitants , by means of increafing business or trafic , would begin to erect houfes for the accommodation of new fettlers , and by this flow but fure progrefs , the village would rife to a town ...
... distance of feveral miles ; while the inhabitants , by means of increafing business or trafic , would begin to erect houfes for the accommodation of new fettlers , and by this flow but fure progrefs , the village would rife to a town ...
Page cxxxv
... distance is seventy miles in a ftraight line . This coaft faces the Northern Ocean , and forms the main fhore of the Pentland Firth . It is from one end to the other a most hazar- dous coaft , compofed , in fome parts , of pendicular ...
... distance is seventy miles in a ftraight line . This coaft faces the Northern Ocean , and forms the main fhore of the Pentland Firth . It is from one end to the other a most hazar- dous coaft , compofed , in fome parts , of pendicular ...
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Page 1 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and...
Page 108 - 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.
Page 21 - ... of folid unformed rock, above thefe, the ftratum which reaches to the foil or furface of the ifland, varied in thicknefs, as the ifland itfelf formed into hills or vallies...
Page 21 - Compared to this what are the cathedrals or the palaces built by men! mere models or playthings, imitations as diminutive as his works will always be when compared to those of nature.
Page 22 - Hill more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without ; fo that the fartheft extremity is very plainly feen from without, and the air within being agitated by the flux and reflux of the tides, is perfectly dry and wholefome, free entirely from the damp vapours with which natural caverns in general abound.
Page 21 - ... arrived than we were struck with a scene of magnificence which exceeded our expectations...
Page 34 - ... as if the fabric of the world had been in great diforder. He did not think there had been fo many people in the world as in the city of Glafgow ; and it was a great myftery to him to think what they could all defign by living fo many in one place.
Page 62 - ... from the whole, though he often thinks proper to deny it to particulars ; yet this partial failure (for which we fee no natural...
Page 35 - ... with iron nails, he could not forbear laughing, and thought it the most ridiculous thing that ever fell under his observation. He longed to see his native country again, and passionately wished it were blessed with ale, brandy, tobacco, and iron, as Glasgow was.