The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures; of the Population, Cities, Towns, Villages, &c. of Each County ...T. Bonar and J. Brown, 1806 - Architecture |
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... produce turf for covering the cottages is most truly barbarous , as it leaves the land , during a long period , in a state of abso- lute barenness . Inclosures . There are some fields of the Carse inclosed with hedge and ditch ; but ...
... produce turf for covering the cottages is most truly barbarous , as it leaves the land , during a long period , in a state of abso- lute barenness . Inclosures . There are some fields of the Carse inclosed with hedge and ditch ; but ...
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... produce was no less than twelve ounces of silver from fourteen ounces of ore . The expence of the discovery did not cost above L.50 . Du- ring thirteen or fourteen weeks the produce amounted to about L.4000 weekly , and the proprietor ...
... produce was no less than twelve ounces of silver from fourteen ounces of ore . The expence of the discovery did not cost above L.50 . Du- ring thirteen or fourteen weeks the produce amounted to about L.4000 weekly , and the proprietor ...
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... produce of his industry in the way now mentioned . Upon the whole , though this district possesses great ad vantages , from its minerals and the vicinity of a navigable river , yet this river , on the one side , and the mountains on the ...
... produce of his industry in the way now mentioned . Upon the whole , though this district possesses great ad vantages , from its minerals and the vicinity of a navigable river , yet this river , on the one side , and the mountains on the ...
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... and higher part of the Ochils , however , heath becomes more abundant . The chief variety in the appearance of the low grounds is produced by the mixture Waters . of corn and grass lands , and by KINROSS - SHIRE . 23.
... and higher part of the Ochils , however , heath becomes more abundant . The chief variety in the appearance of the low grounds is produced by the mixture Waters . of corn and grass lands , and by KINROSS - SHIRE . 23.
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... produces fine short grass without heath . • Climate . In the higher grounds the climate is cold and wet . This is owing to the elevation of the land , and chiefly to the hills , which attract the clouds and vapours in their course ...
... produces fine short grass without heath . • Climate . In the higher grounds the climate is cold and wet . This is owing to the elevation of the land , and chiefly to the hills , which attract the clouds and vapours in their course ...
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Page 505 - So withered, and so wild in their attire; That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Page 332 - Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore, in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast. There is little doubt...
Page 479 - ... acknowledge that I was afraid to put it to the press, and for the same cause I ought to have the same fears still...
Page 332 - They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake into so many portions, as similar as possible to one another in size and shape, as there are persons in the company. They daub one of these portions all over with charcoal, until it be perfectly black. They put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet.
Page 358 - ... barbarity. His history is written with elegance and vigour, but his fabulousness and credulity are justly blamed. His fabulousness, if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused in an age when all men were credulous.
Page 332 - Beltan or 2&/-&2#-day, all the boys in a township or hamlet meet in the moors. They cut a table in the green sod, of a round figure, by casting a trench in the ground of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the...
Page 358 - The first race of scholars, in the fifteenth century, and some time after, were, for tho most part, learning to speak, rather than to think, and were therefore more studious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it sufficient to know what the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets and of facts was reserved for another generation.
Page 307 - I lived a virgin's life : Ten times five years I was a virtuous wife : Ten times five years I lived a widow chaste ; Now, weary'd of this mortal life, I rest.
Page 293 - ... having ascended from the coal-pit, and seeing himself without any previous intimation surrounded by the sea, he was seized with an immediate apprehension of some plot against his liberty or life, and called out ' Treason ! ' But his faithful guide quickly dispelled his fears by assuring him that he was in perfect safety, and pointing to an elegant pinnace that was made fast to the moat, desired to know whether it was most agreeable to his Majesty to be carried ashore in it, or return by the way...
Page 326 - Turn your astonish'd eyes ; behold yon huge And unhewn sphere of living adamant, Which, poised by magic, rests its central weight On yonder pointed rock ; firm as it seems, Such is its strange and virtuous property, It moves obsequious to the gentlest touch Of him whose breast is pure ; but to a traitor, Tho' even a giant's prowess nerv'd his arm, It stands as fixed as Snowdon.