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Scotland: A Historical Study (Classic Reprint)
Scotland A Historical Study - Classic Reprint Author:A. R. Hope Moncrieff BONNIE SCOTLAND CHAPTER I THE BORDERS THE dawn broadens, the mists roll away to show a northward- bound traveller how his train is speeding between slopes of moorland, green and grey, here patched by bracken or bog, there dotted by wind-:blown trees, everywhere cut by water-courses gathering into gentle rivers that can be furious enough in spate... more », when they hurl a drowned sheep or a broken hurdle through those valleys opening a glimpse of mansions and villages among sheltered woods. Are we still in England, or in what at least as far back as Cromwell's time called itself" Bonnie Scotland"? It is as hard to be sure as to make out whether that cloudy knoll on the horizon is crowned by a peat-stack or by the stump of a Border peel. Either bank of Tweed and Liddel has much the same aspects. An expert might perhaps read the look or the size of the fields. Could one get speech with that brawny corduroyed lad tramping along the furrows to his early job, whistling maybe,
Table of Contents
1 THE BORDERS; II AULD REEKIE; III THE TROSSACHS ROUND •; IV THE KINGDOM OF FIFE •; V THE FAIR CITY; VI THE HIGHLAND LINE; VII "ABERDEEN AWA'!"; 'III To JOHN 0' GROAT'S HOUSE; IX THE GREAT GLEN; X GLASGOW AND THE CLYDE; XI THE WHIG COUNTRY; XII GALLOWAY
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