 | 1831 - 480 páginas
...twelve inches in circumference at the root. Tradition says, that the island was once a deer forest ; and that some of Fingal's huntings took place here. The inhabitants point out Sha-nan-ban Fioun, " the hill of the Fingalian fair ladies." It is not usual for Tourists from Oban... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1832 - 490 páginas
...twelve inches in circumference at the root. Tradition says, that the island was once a deer forest ; and that some of Fingal's huntings took place here. The inhabitants point out Sha-nan-ban Fioun, " the hill of the Fingalian fair ladies." It is not usual for Tourists from Oban... | |
 | Charles Lesingham Smith - 1835 - 156 páginas
...tongue. Jlugust 26. — Rose at five o'clock and went down to the steamer, resolved to visit Staifa, even if I saw nothing. There were very few passengers...ruins of Ardtornish Castle, rendered classic by Sir Waller's Lord of the Isles. Below the Castle is the bay, according to the same authority, where Robert... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1836 - 498 páginas
...circumference at the root. Tradition says that the island was once~a deer forest, and that some of Ifingal's huntings took place here. The inhabitants point out Sha-nan-banFioun, "the hill of the Fingalian fair ladies." It is not usual for Tourists from Oban to land at Idsmore. After nearing it, they leave... | |
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... the Orkneys. The greatest curiosities in this island are horns of the elk and bison of prodigious size, said to have been found in the soil. The pith of one of the latter, though much shrivelled, is twelve inches in circumference at the root. Tradition... 