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... Glens , passing away up and into recesses beyond the vision , and here and there descried as termi- nated only in ... glen , and cleaving and revealing the roots of old and extinct forests . Nothing can be more perfect in valley scenery ...
... Glens , passing away up and into recesses beyond the vision , and here and there descried as termi- nated only in ... glen , and cleaving and revealing the roots of old and extinct forests . Nothing can be more perfect in valley scenery ...
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... glen - of long , steep , and rugged ascent - rising up to near the summit of the Dollar Law , 2680 feet above the sea . Down this rushes the Ugly - i.e . , fearsome -Grain ( the old Scandinavian word for branch of burn ) —and a grand ...
... glen - of long , steep , and rugged ascent - rising up to near the summit of the Dollar Law , 2680 feet above the sea . Down this rushes the Ugly - i.e . , fearsome -Grain ( the old Scandinavian word for branch of burn ) —and a grand ...
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... glen of special attractiveness . To the bare uplands of the higher valley succeed smiling corn - fields and graceful clumps of trees , especially in the middle and lower parts . Here and there alders and birks fringe the stream , and ...
... glen of special attractiveness . To the bare uplands of the higher valley succeed smiling corn - fields and graceful clumps of trees , especially in the middle and lower parts . Here and there alders and birks fringe the stream , and ...
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... glen , their names . unmarked , even their graves forgotten . Only a graceful cross set up recently on the site of the ancient church , by the late Sir John Naesmyth , a man of culture and true historic feeling , tells briefly and ...
... glen , their names . unmarked , even their graves forgotten . Only a graceful cross set up recently on the site of the ancient church , by the late Sir John Naesmyth , a man of culture and true historic feeling , tells briefly and ...
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... glen , their names unmarked , even their graves forgotten . Only a graceful cross set up recently on the site of the ancient church , by the late Sir John Naesmyth , a man of culture and true historic feeling , tells briefly and ...
... glen , their names unmarked , even their graves forgotten . Only a graceful cross set up recently on the site of the ancient church , by the late Sir John Naesmyth , a man of culture and true historic feeling , tells briefly and ...
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Página 81 - Why throw away a needful day To go in search of Yarrow ? "' What's Yarrow but a river bare That glides the dark hills under ? There are a thousand such elsewhere, As worthy of your wonder.' Strange words they seemed of slight and scorn; My true-love sighed for sorrow; And looked me in the face, to think I thus could speak of Yarrow