Ward & Lock's (late Shaw's) Illustrated Guide To, and Popular History of Loch Lomond, the Trosachs, Loch Katrine, Etc |
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Page 26 - Resistless, roaring, dreadful, down it comes, From the rude mountain, and the mossy wild, Tumbling through rocks abrupt, and sounding far; Then o'er the sanded valley floating spreads, Calm, sluggish, silent; till again...
Page 23 - Have then thy wish!' — He whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows : On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe...
Page 37 - There's some say that we wan, Some say that they wan, Some say that nane wan at a', man; But one thing I'm sure, That at Sheriffmuir A battle there was, which I saw, man; And we ran, and they ran, and they ran, and we ran, And we ran and they ran awa', man.
Page 3 - TOURISTS are recommended to procure a copy of the Caledonian Railway Company's " Tourist Guide," which can be had at any of the Company's Stations, and also at the chief Stations on the London and...