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Download or read book Tours in Scotland 1747 1750 1760 written by Richard Pococke and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... Alex. Pope of Reay, in Pennant's Tour Scot. 1769, p. 357. 4 'Near the Bridge of Brora there is a fine large cave, called Uai na Caiman. The Bishop of Ossory admired it, and said there were such caves about Bethlehem in Palestine.'--By Pope, in Pennant's Tour Scot. 1769, p. 357. 5 The Doll of Brora. Coming along the coast near a mile to Dunrobin, Lord Sutherland's castle and house, we were surprized at seeing halfa-dozen families forming so many groupes--viz., the man, his wife, and children, each under a coverlit, and reposing on the shoar, in order to wait for ye tyde to go a-fishing. We arrived at Dunrobin, twenty miles from Dunbeath. This castle is finely situated on the end of a hill, which is cut off by a deep fossee, so that it appears on the south side, and next to the sea, like an old Celtic mount. Between it and the sea is a very good garden. The castle did consist of two square towers and a gateway. One tower only remains now, to which the house is built. There are good appartments in it, tho' some have been destroyed by fire. The present earl has begun to plant the hanging ground from the house, and proposes to carry it on, which will make it exceeding fine. This castle was built by the first Earl of Sutherland. A small mile to the north-west is a part called the old town and ye remains of a Pictish castle,1 which must have been the residence of the Thanes of Sutherland, under which name they have been famous in history, and more especially in the time of Macbeth. The court of this castle is about thirty feet in diameter; there was a terrace on the outside twenty-one feet broad, and round that are the foundations of a wall six feet thick; this also is a mount cut of from the hill; on each side at the entrance was a sort of...

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Download or read book A Tour in Scotland 1769 written by Thomas Pennant and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prolific author, Thomes Pennant's great passion for natural history and the publication of his three volume magnum opus "British Zoology" in 1761 had already brought him membership of the Royal Society and fame, by the time he began the work for which he is now remembered - his two great tours of Scotland and the north of England. Pennant was to write the seminal work of the 18th century. His writing is one of the first major accounts of the Highlands after the suppression of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Pennant's work is more than simply a topography of the country, but represents a desire to introduce a land which was very much "terra incognita" to a southern audience. Although a Hanoverian, it is a measure of his balance and judgement that his writings about a land so recently hostile to that dynasty are so fair and scrupulous. The acutness and range of his observation is almost without parallel for the time, and his work is an invaluable mine of information on the history, tradition, customs and geography of North Britain on the edge of vast and irrevocable change.

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