| Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 668 σελίδες
...pinnacle of a reck, look down with composed defiance at man. In a word, both by land and water, thereare so many turnings and windings, so many heights and hollows, so many glens and capes and bays, that one cannot advance twenty yards without having his prospect changed by the... | |
| Robert Forsyth - 1806 - 656 σελίδες
...wild- fowls, perched on trees, or on the pinnacle of a rock, look down with composed defiance at man. In a word, both by land and water, there are so many...windings, so many heights and hollows, so many glens and capes and bays, that one cannot advance twenty yards without having his prospect changed by the... | |
| George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 300 σελίδες
...perfectly he was there: because a guide could not be bribed to discover his retreat. In a word, hoth by land and water, there are so many turnings and...many heights and hollows, so many glens, capes, and hays, that one cannot advance twenty yards without having his prospect changed, by the continual appearance... | |
| Edinburgh gazetteer - 1822 - 846 σελίδες
...wild fowls perched on trees, or on the pinnacle of a rock, look down with composal defiance at man. In a word, both by land and water, there are so many...continual appearance of new objects, while others are constantly retiring out of sight. This scene id closed by a west view of the lake for several miles,... | |
| Edinburgh gazetteer - 1822 - 844 σελίδες
...wild fowls perched on trees, or on the pinnacle of a rock, look down with composed defiance at man. In a word, both by land and water, there are so many...without having his prospect changed by the continual appearauce of new objects, while others are constantly retiring out of sight. This scene is closed... | |
| John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1823 - 422 σελίδες
...of a ruck, look down with composed defiance at man. In a word, both by land and water, there are ao many turnings and windings, so many heights and hollows, so many glens, and capes, and bays, that one cannot advance twenty yards without having the prospect changed by the... | |
| James Mitchell - 1825 - 798 σελίδες
...eluded the most diligent search of the officers of the revenue, although they knew perfectly he wa» there ; because a guide could not be bribed to discover...both by land and water, there are so many turnings aud windings, so many heights and hollows, so many glens, and capes, and bays, that one cannot advance... | |
| John Stark - 1825 - 414 σελίδες
...wild fowls, perched on trees, or on the pinnacle of a rock, look down with composed defiance at man. In a word, both by land and water, there are so many...windings, so many heights and hollows, so many glens, and capes, and bays, that one cannot advance twenty yards without having the prospect changed by the... | |
| Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1829 - 428 σελίδες
...fowl, perched on the trees, or on the pinnacle of a rock, look down with composed defiance at man. In a word, both by land and water, there are so many...many glens, capes, and bays, that one cannot advance twenty yards without having the prospect changed by the continual appearance of new objects, while... | |
| William Lawson (of St. Mark's College, Chelsea.) - 1859 - 114 σελίδες
...foot, and on the broken and often precipitous slopes of Ben Venu, exhibit, both by land and water, so many turnings and windings, so many heights and hollows, so many glens, capes, and bays, that it is impossible to advance twenty yards without having the prospect changed by the continual appearance... | |
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