The Natural History of Dee Side and Braemarprivate circulation, 1855 - 507 pagine |
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The Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar William Macgillivray,Edwin Lankester Anteprima non disponibile - 2015 |
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Aberdeen Aberdeenshire abundant Alchemilla alpina alpinum ascended Ballater banks base beautiful Ben-Aun Ben-na-buird Ben-na-muic-dhui Birch blocks Braemar Braeriach Cairntoul Carex Castletown Clunie Common Corry of Loch covered craggy crags Culter cultivated declivity Deer descended detritus Dickie distance distributed district eastern side eastward elevation Epilobium extending feet felspar fissured forest Forfarshire fragments Glen Callater Glen Ey Glen Gairn Glen Muic Glen Tanar Gnaphalium Gnaphalium supinum gneiss granite ground Gyll Heather heaths hill-range hills hollow hornblende horns John Macgillivray lake Lichens limestone Loch Ceannor Loch of Skene Lochnagar lower tracts Lowl Luzula Luzula spicata Macgillivray Marsh mass mica mica-slate miles Mona-rua moors Morven mountains mouth officinalis palustris pastures Payk Perthshire Pine plants porphyry precipices present quartz range ridge river rocks rocky Saxifraga Scotland seen serpentine slaty species Stag Steph stones strata stream Subalp summit thickets trees uncommon upper valley vulgaris waste places woods
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Pagina 146 - The town is fortified with an entrenchment, salient angles, and redoubts, which inclose about half a mile in length, and a quarter of a mile in width.
Pagina 468 - In other parts of Europe, Stags have been killed with a very much larger number of points than any recorded in Scotland. There is a head still preserved at Mauritzberg, which presents the enormous number of sixty-six points ; it was killed by the first King of Prussia, and presented by that monarch to Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. In the collection at the Chateau of "Wohrad, the hunting residence of the Lordship of Frauenberg, there are one hundred and nine Stags' heads, of which...
Pagina 417 - A History of the Molluscous Animals of the Counties of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff; to which is appended an Account of the Cirripedal Animals of the same District.
Pagina 41 - ... ft. broad and 9 ft. high. The water is thus impeded, and accumulates in the fissure, where it has scooped out the lower part of the rocks on either side in the form of a concavity, like half the top of a dome. The breadth is 24 yards below, but only 16 above.
Pagina 487 - ... in winter, when the ground is covered with snow, they browse on the tender branches of the fir and birch-trees.
Pagina 73 - ... a natural cleft in its bed not three feet wide. It has been described by one who not only knew it well, being a native of the county, but was also a man of science, and therefore a reliable witness. What says MacGillivray of it ? " Great as the force of the stream must be, it has failed to wear off projecting angles or to straighten the passage. Considering the power of running water, and especially the wonderful effects it is represented as producing, we naturally think it strange that this...
Pagina 46 - ... part chiefly resorted to by visitors ; and from it, as well as from some other parts of the summit, is obtained a most extensive view of the country around, as far as the Lothians, Stirlingshire, the southern Grampians, many of the Perthshire mountains, those of the upper extremity of Aberdeenshire, beyond them some of the great prominences of the counties of Argyle and Inverness ; ridges and hills even beyond the Moray Firth, as well as the lower eastern tracts, extending from thence to Aberdeen,...
Pagina 56 - Were it in a bog, or on a sand-bank, it would be, in one sense, just as interesting. Extended and improved as it has recently been, it is a beautiful object in itself, and receives from the Birch forest that stretches far around it an increase of beauty. Whether this be one of the finest sites on the Dee or not, it is yet by far the most interesting, and perhaps ever will be. Still onward, amidst woods and mountains, and here and there fields, yielding the staple food of the Scot. Let us again look...
Pagina 44 - Muic, or any part of it. When you emerge from the wood at the cascade, you enter the upper glen, bare and scarcely showing any traces of habitation. Proceeding as far as a place called Inchnabobart, the etymology of which is impracticable, we left our vehicle, and commenced walking. Ascending directly to a hollow, between the southern shoulder of the mountain and a less elevated conical mass, we found upon the blocks, as well as on the ground, a great variety of highly developed lichens, of which...
Pagina 463 - ... Europe. Mr. Blyth described a variety as the Hungarian Stag (Mus. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1841, 750. t. 3. f. 11). The Deer which Buffon (HN vi. 95. t. 11) describes under the name of the Cerf de Corse, has been regarded as a variety to be distinguished by the smallness of its size, but Buffon observes, that he believes the " size to depend on the scarcity of nourishment ; for when moved to better pastures, in four years they became higher, larger and stouter than the Common Stags.