 And yet it is just possible, that in the case of at least M'Culloch's picture, the brown varnish might do no manner of harm. But a homelier sketch, traced out on almost the same leading lines, with just a little less of the aerial in it, may have nearly...  The Cruise of the Betsey - Page 47by Hugh Miller - 1858 - 524 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 542 pages
...had not greatly improved the tone of the coloring. And yet it is just possible, that in the case of at least M'Culloch's picture, the brown varnish might...high. Viewed sideways, it assumes, as described by M'Culloeh, the form of a perpendicular but ruinous rampart, much gapped above, that runs for about... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - Scotland - 1867 - 546 pages
...overlying a forest of petrified trees belonging to an extinct species of the Conifera. "The Scuir of Eigg is a veritable Giant's Causeway, like that on the...coast of Antrim, taken and magnified rather more than 20 times its height, and then placed on the ridge of a hill nearly 900 ft. high. This strange causeway... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - Scotland - 1867 - 538 pages
...overlying a forest of petrified trees belonging to an extinct species of the Conifera. " The Scuir of Eigg is a veritable Giant's Causeway, like that on the...coast of Antrim, taken and magnified rather more than 20 times its height, and then placed on the ridge of a hill nearly 900 ft. high. This strange causeway... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1869 - 528 pages
...had not greatly improved the tone of the colouring. And yet it is just possible, that in the case of at least M'Culloch's picture, the brown varnish might...form of a perpendicular but ruinous rampart, much gapped above, that runs for about a mile and a quarter along the top of a lofty sloping talus. Viewed... | |
 | Yachting - 1869 - 614 pages
...within one hour and a-half, without shifting sails. Hugh Miller when describing the island says it is — " a veritable Giant's Causeway, like that on...some five or six times in breadth, and then placed on a hill nine hundred feet high." Gttike, who with other geologists, made a careful survey of the island,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1872 - 504 pages
...had not greatly improved the tone of the colouring. And yet it is just possible, that in the case of at least M'Culloch's picture, the brown varnish might...form of a perpendicular but ruinous rampart, much gapped above, that runs for about a mile and a quarter along the top of a lofty sloping talus. Viewed... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - Scotland - 1873 - 644 pages
...of pitch-stone and porphyry — the trap overlying a forest of petrified trees. "The Scuir of Eigg is a veritable Giant's Causeway, like that on the...coast of Antrim, taken and magnified rather more than 20 times its height, and then placed on the ridge of a hill nearly 900 ft. high. This strange causeway... | |
 | Yachting - 1859 - 626 pages
...called the Scuir of Eig, rising several hundred feet perpendicularly. Hugh Miller describes it as " a veritable Giant's Causeway, like that on the coast...some five or six times in breadth, and then placed on a hill nearly nine hundred feet high." On the island are several caves of considerable extent, one... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1858 - 786 pages
...beach without; and gladly wo ascend with them the breezy hill-side on their way to the Scuir of Eigg, ' a veritable Giant's Causeway, like that on the coast...Antrim, taken and magnified rather more than twenty tunes in height, and some fire or six times in breadth, and then placed on the ridge of a hill nearly... | |
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