The Braemar Highlands; Their Tales, Traditions, and HistoryW.P. Nimmo, 1869 - 343 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... Laird of Allen - quoich - The Baron of Braichley - Tragedy of Strathgirnock - James Farquharson , the first Laird of Inverey , 133 147 CHAPTER III . Donald Oig - Italian Champion , etc. , 165 CHAPTER IV . The Cam - ruadh- ' Cleansers ...
... Laird of Allen - quoich - The Baron of Braichley - Tragedy of Strathgirnock - James Farquharson , the first Laird of Inverey , 133 147 CHAPTER III . Donald Oig - Italian Champion , etc. , 165 CHAPTER IV . The Cam - ruadh- ' Cleansers ...
Pagina 24
... Laird of Rothiemurchus ( 10 ) . The Cuiach or Quoich , i.e. Goblet , derives its con- . vivial name from a number of circular cavities hol- lowed out in the gneiss by the action of the water ; one of these cavities in particular being ...
... Laird of Rothiemurchus ( 10 ) . The Cuiach or Quoich , i.e. Goblet , derives its con- . vivial name from a number of circular cavities hol- lowed out in the gneiss by the action of the water ; one of these cavities in particular being ...
Pagina 47
... Laird of Cluny in times of danger used to hide his charter chest . After the battle of Culloden , Colonel Farquharson of Cluny hid himself in a cave far up this rock for the space of ten months ; and it is said , when lying there ...
... Laird of Cluny in times of danger used to hide his charter chest . After the battle of Culloden , Colonel Farquharson of Cluny hid himself in a cave far up this rock for the space of ten months ; and it is said , when lying there ...
Pagina 114
... laird who was killed , on going , according to the usual custom , the round of his retainers at Christmas for the annual gift , got on one occasion from M'Intosh of Tir Igny the unusually large one of a bull and several cows . This only ...
... laird who was killed , on going , according to the usual custom , the round of his retainers at Christmas for the annual gift , got on one occasion from M'Intosh of Tir Igny the unusually large one of a bull and several cows . This only ...
Pagina 115
... laird of Glen Markie , Invermarkie , and Glen Feshie , who having during a feud killed a M'Pherson of some note , the whole clan turned out to revenge it . Shaw with his people fled by the way of Rothiemurchus and Abernethy . At the ...
... laird of Glen Markie , Invermarkie , and Glen Feshie , who having during a feud killed a M'Pherson of some note , the whole clan turned out to revenge it . Shaw with his people fled by the way of Rothiemurchus and Abernethy . At the ...
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Pagina 227 - ... day is come, the lords and gentlemen of their companies do ride or go to the said places, sometimes wading up to the...
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Pagina 228 - Then after we had stayed there three hours or thereabouts, we might perceive the deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which being followed close by the...
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Pagina 36 - Shades of the dead ! have I not heard your voices Rise on the night-rolling breath of the gale!" Surely the soul of the hero rejoices, And rides on the wind o'er his own Highland vale.
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