The Cairngorm MountainsWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1864 - 120 páginas |
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... seen the Jung- frau spread forth her vast robe of snow before the sun , as if in haughty defiance of his power . I had examined as closely as one who does not want a sousing could the great Staubbach , or Fall of Dust , called the ...
... seen the Jung- frau spread forth her vast robe of snow before the sun , as if in haughty defiance of his power . I had examined as closely as one who does not want a sousing could the great Staubbach , or Fall of Dust , called the ...
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... seen them in Marshall's panoramas or on the parade- ground of Edinburgh Castle ! I was reminded of the fine description which Scott gives of the Highland girl who was gazing indolently along the solitary glen of Gortuleg on the day of ...
... seen them in Marshall's panoramas or on the parade- ground of Edinburgh Castle ! I was reminded of the fine description which Scott gives of the Highland girl who was gazing indolently along the solitary glen of Gortuleg on the day of ...
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... seen it in one mood let him go back and see it in another . Among the silly notions of the tourist intellect , one is the varying of the scene , and the avoidance of routes that have been already taken . There are scenes that will bear ...
... seen it in one mood let him go back and see it in another . Among the silly notions of the tourist intellect , one is the varying of the scene , and the avoidance of routes that have been already taken . There are scenes that will bear ...
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... seen near at hand . This little tarn , with its background of dark rocks interspersed with patches of snow , might strongly remind the Alpine traveller of the lake near the Hospice of the Grimsel . The two scenes are alike hard and ...
... seen near at hand . This little tarn , with its background of dark rocks interspersed with patches of snow , might strongly remind the Alpine traveller of the lake near the Hospice of the Grimsel . The two scenes are alike hard and ...
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... seen like silver threads , while their forest banks resemble beds of mignionette or young boxwood . There are at several points prodigious precipices , from which one might contemplate the scene below ; but I recommend caution to the ...
... seen like silver threads , while their forest banks resemble beds of mignionette or young boxwood . There are at several points prodigious precipices , from which one might contemplate the scene below ; but I recommend caution to the ...
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Adventures AGRICULTURAL ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON Alpine ascended Author BALLADS Bart beautiful Ben Nevis Blackwood's Magazine BOOKS PUBLISHED bound in cloth Brae Riach Cairn Toul Cairngorm range cataract colours Cringle's Log Crown 8vo D. M. MOIR deep descending edge English Engravings Farm Fcap forest GEOLOGY glacier glen Glen Lui half-bound heather Highland HISTORY Illustrations Index JOHN GALT JOHN HILL BURTON JOHN TULLOCH KEITH JOHNSTON lake Loch Avon look Maps MEMOIR miles mountain Muich Dhui narrow Nevis night pass peculiar pedestrian perhaps POEMS POLITICAL Portrait Post 8vo precipice PROFESSOR WILSON R. H. BARHAM recollections river roaring rock rocky round Royal 8vo SAMUEL WARREN scarcely scene scenery Scotland Second Edition seen side SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON Spey spot stone stream summit tain Third Edition thousand feet tourist traveller trees University of Edinburgh valley vols Volumes walk wanderer whole WILLIAM Wood
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