This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813. Excerpt: ... this fake and Loch Locby into which its contents are discharged, the distance is hardly two miles, where the castle of Colonel Cameron of Lochiel is situated on the bank of the river, protected under the shelter of aged trees and surrounded with red deer, the indigenous breed of Scotland. From the west end ofLbcharkaig there is a glon of six miles more) stretching forward to the highest summit of the rising ground, which is called Glenpean, a beautiful green grazing. It is a singular feature in the complexion of this country, that the lower grounds are in many places covered with barren heath, growing on a poor soU, while the tops of the mountains, to their summit, are clad with a rich carpet of green grass, springing from a fertile mellow earth. From this station, or from Maam Chlach Ard,-in Glendessary, a most sublime object is presented to view, a wide expanse of sea, sprinkled with the Caledonian islands, at different distances and of different magnitude. Skye, the chief of these, appears on the right, with Rum, Egg, and Canna; and in the dis" tant horizon the long train of the Hebrides, like a dark cloud resting on the bosom of the ocean, glimmers in the eye, fatigued by tracing their length, which extends a whole degree on the equator. Turning to objects more at hand, Loch Morar, a fresh-water lake, whose length is fourteen miles, is beheld at the foot of this elevated ground, and the river issuing from it falls into that part of the sea called-Linne Letach. On the north, Glendessary stretches in a direct line four miles. At the head of this glen is a pass, named Maam Chlach Ard, which leads down to Loch Nivaish,r an Ticfj.-: of tht Ugh stoati. Mann is 3. frequent designation in tha D2.. Highlands, Highlands,-applied ti the passage between the shou... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге General View of the Agriculture of the County of Inverness; With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement (Great Britain Board of Agriculture)