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... centre , while in the northern part the seas of the east and west ( Dornoch ( Dor ' - nok ) Firth and Loch Broom ) approach within 24 miles of each other . Farther south , the distance from the Firth of Forth to the Firth of Clyde is ...
... centre , while in the northern part the seas of the east and west ( Dornoch ( Dor ' - nok ) Firth and Loch Broom ) approach within 24 miles of each other . Farther south , the distance from the Firth of Forth to the Firth of Clyde is ...
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... centre , and Fingal's Hall on the right . 5. Landing near Clamshell Cave , and clambering towards Fingal's Cave , we saw thousands of columns scattered in all directions . We entered and were struck with the natural grandeur of this ...
... centre , and Fingal's Hall on the right . 5. Landing near Clamshell Cave , and clambering towards Fingal's Cave , we saw thousands of columns scattered in all directions . We entered and were struck with the natural grandeur of this ...
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... centre of the Cumbrian group . Loch Lomond ( Lō ' - mond ) , which stretches southward , is the largest and most beautiful lake in Britain . It is 24 miles long , and one to seven miles broad , and has many well - wooded islands ...
... centre of the Cumbrian group . Loch Lomond ( Lō ' - mond ) , which stretches southward , is the largest and most beautiful lake in Britain . It is 24 miles long , and one to seven miles broad , and has many well - wooded islands ...
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... centre of Glasgow , and becomes a tidal stream . 7. At Glasgow the river is spanned by several bridges , below which is formed the harbour of Glasgow . Till some distance into the present century the river channel here was quite shallow ...
... centre of Glasgow , and becomes a tidal stream . 7. At Glasgow the river is spanned by several bridges , below which is formed the harbour of Glasgow . Till some distance into the present century the river channel here was quite shallow ...
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... centre of Scottish history . By night , the castle and its rock are always in dark gloom ; but by day they look down upon the double city with stern peacefulness . 10. The rock with its brown cliffs , trees and bushes , and the fortress ...
... centre of Scottish history . By night , the castle and its rock are always in dark gloom ; but by day they look down upon the double city with stern peacefulness . 10. The rock with its brown cliffs , trees and bushes , and the fortress ...
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Aberdeen agricultural ancient Arran Atlantic Ocean Australia banks beautiful Belfast Ben Nevis Britain British Isles Cape capital Carnsore Point Castle Causeway centre Channel Clew Bay cliffs cloth boards Clyde coal coast colonies colour contains Cork County Antrim deep district Donegal Dublin Dundee Dunnet Head east Edinburgh England English Erris Head estuary Fair Head feet Firth fish Galway Bay Geographical Glasgow glens gold granite harbour Hebrides height Highlands hills inlets Iona Ireland Irish Sea iron islands lakes land largest Lawrence LESSON linen Loch Lough Lowlands mainland manufactures miles Mizen Head mountains Mull Ness North Island North Sea northern numerous Orkneys Outer Hebrides plain population port produce Reader rise river rock rocky scenery Scotland Shetlands ship-building shores side Solway Firth south-west Staffa Standard stream Street surface timber town Towns.-II trade trees Tweed valley vessels Wales western Wicklow wooded wool woollen
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Página 10 - But here, - above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone...
Página 188 - There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
Página 66 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ; Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Página 10 - Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high...
Página 198 - ... band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break, Although it chill my wither'd cheek; Still lay my head by Teviot Stone, Though there, forgotten and alone, The Bard...
Página 116 - ... live in a big house, so a small country cannot support a big river. Now, to an Englishman or a Frenchman, the Severn or the Thames, the Seine or the Rhone, would appear considerable streams, but in the Ottawa, a mere affluent of the St. Lawrence, — an affluent, moreover, which reaches the parent stream...
Página 191 - He forfeits a finger, a foot, or a hand. But when the Spring opens, we then take the hoe, And make the ground ready to plant and to sow ; Our corn being planted and seed being sown, The worms destroy much before it is grown ; And...
Página 115 - Louis, which rises in the centre of the continent and flows into Lake Superior. This lake is as long as England (420 miles), and is the largest body of fresh water in the world.