A Tour in Scotland, 1769Birlinn, 2000 - 204 pagina's A prolific author, Thomes Pennant's great passion for natural history and the publication of his three volume magnum opus "British Zoology" in 1761 had already brought him membership of the Royal Society and fame, by the time he began the work for which he is now remembered - his two great tours of Scotland and the north of England. Pennant was to write the seminal work of the 18th century. His writing is one of the first major accounts of the Highlands after the suppression of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Pennant's work is more than simply a topography of the country, but represents a desire to introduce a land which was very much "terra incognita" to a southern audience. Although a Hanoverian, it is a measure of his balance and judgement that his writings about a land so recently hostile to that dynasty are so fair and scrupulous. The acutness and range of his observation is almost without parallel for the time, and his work is an invaluable mine of information on the history, tradition, customs and geography of North Britain on the edge of vast and irrevocable change. |
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Pagina 134
... Loch Ness is fourteen feet . The lakes from whence it receives its supplies are Loch Oich , Loch Garrie , and Loch Quioh . There is but very little navigation on it ; the only vessel is a gally belonging to the fort , to bring the ...
... Loch Ness is fourteen feet . The lakes from whence it receives its supplies are Loch Oich , Loch Garrie , and Loch Quioh . There is but very little navigation on it ; the only vessel is a gally belonging to the fort , to bring the ...
Pagina 136
... Loch Oich do through Loch Ness into the eastern . About the beginning of this lake enter Lochaber ; 10 stop at Lowbridge , a poor house ; travel over a black moor for some miles ; see abundance of cattle , but scarce any corn . Cross ...
... Loch Oich do through Loch Ness into the eastern . About the beginning of this lake enter Lochaber ; 10 stop at Lowbridge , a poor house ; travel over a black moor for some miles ; see abundance of cattle , but scarce any corn . Cross ...
Pagina 150
... Loch Aw , Loch Fine , Loch Long , and Loch Lomond . Two indeed are of salt water ; but , by their narrowness , give ... Oich has lofty mountains at a small distance from its borders ; the shores indented , and the water decorated with isles .
... Loch Aw , Loch Fine , Loch Long , and Loch Lomond . Two indeed are of salt water ; but , by their narrowness , give ... Oich has lofty mountains at a small distance from its borders ; the shores indented , and the water decorated with isles .
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