Shearer's Guide to Stirling, Dunblane, Callender, the Trossachs and Loch Lomond, Killin, Loch Awe, and Oban: The Story of the Lady of the Lake. The Clans of the DistrictR.S. Shearer & Son, 1907 - 189 pages |
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Abbey Aberfoyle Ardlui Arklet ascend Balloch Balmaha Balquhidder battle beautiful Ben Ledi Ben Lomond boat Bridge Brig Buchanan Callander chief Church coach Colquhoun Crianlarich Cruachan district Douglas Doune Duke of Montrose Earl Ellen Ellen's Isle feet Fiery Cross fishing Fitz-James Glasgow Glen Græme height Highland hills House Inversnaid Inveruglas island James Lady Lake of Menteith land Ledi Lennox LENOX TILDEN FOUNDATIONS Leven Loch Achray Loch Ard Loch Awe Loch Awe Station Loch Etive Loch Katrine Loch Lomond Loch Lubnaig Loch Vennachar Luss Macfarlane Macgregors mile onward miles from Callander miles in length mountain Oban Parish Pass of Leny pier Queen rail Railway Station river road Rob Roy Rob Roy's rocks Roderick Dhu Rowardennan Royal ruins scenery Scotland Scottish seen shore side Silver Strand Sir Walter Scott situated steamer Stirling Castle Tarbet Taynuilt Teith tourists Trossachs TROSSACHS HOTEL trout Venue village visitors walk Wallace
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Page 61 - And now, to issue from the glen, No pathway meets the wanderer's ken. Unless he climb, with footing nice, A far projecting precipice. The broom's tough roots his ladder made, The hazel saplings lent their aid...
Page 50 - Have then thy wish!' — He whistled shrill, And he was answered from the hill ; Wild as the scream of the curlew, From crag to crag the signal flew. Instant, through copse and heath, arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows : On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe...
Page 74 - These trees, — a veil just half withdrawn, — This fall of water that doth make A murmur near the silent lake...
Page 62 - The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way ; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path, in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle...
Page 56 - ... that, empurpled bright. Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains that like giants stand To sentinel enchanted land. High on the south, huge Benvenue Down...
Page 100 - O'er the peak of Ben Lomond the galley shall steer, And the rocks of Craig Royston like icicles melt, Ere our wrongs be forgot, or our vengeance unfelt ! Then gather, gather, gather, Grigalach ! Gather, gather, gather, etc.
Page 47 - Yet think not that by thee alone, Proud Chief! can courtesy be shown; Though not from copse, or heath, or cairn, Start at my whistle clansmen stern, Of this small horn one feeble blast Would fearful odds against thee cast.
Page 65 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
Page 52 - Who flagged upon Bochastle's heath, Who shunned to stem the flooded Teith, For twice that day from shore to shore The gallant stag swam stoutly o'er. Few were the stragglers, following far, That reached the lake of Vennachar; And when the Brigg of Turk was won, The headmost horseman rode alone.