Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, Volume 11Scottish Mountaineering Club., 1911 Includes reviews of mountaineering literature. |
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Alpine Club arrived ascended beautiful Beinn Beinn Dearg Ben Nevis Bidein Bristed Buchaille buttress cairn Cannich Carn Carn Eige chimney Choire cliffs climb climbers Club-room Coire corrie crags crossed Cruachan Dearg descended district Dundonnell east Easter Edinburgh Etive face feet followed foot Gaiter Glasgow Glen Affric Glen Cannich Goggs granite gully Harold Raeburn Highlands hills Inglis Clark interesting Inveroran Kinlochewe lake ledge Liathach Ling Loch Lochan Lodge looked Lorn Meall Meet Messrs Mhor miles mist moor morning motor Naismith Nevis night party pass path peak pinnacle pitch President Raeburn reached Riabhachan ridge road rock rope route Ruadh scenery Scotland Scottish Mountaineering Club scree Sgurr Alasdair Sgurr na Lapaich side slides slopes snow Solly steep Stob Ghabhar Stoddart Strath stream summit Teallachs Toll an Lochain Torridon traverse Tyndrum valley walk Walker weather
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Page 198 - The appearance is that of matter, incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by Nature from her care, disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation.
Page 338 - holds a pint filled with champagne, or such other sort of wine as you shall choose. You may guess, by the introduction, at the contents of the volume. Few go away sober at any time, and for the greatest part of his guests, in conclusion, they cannot go at all.
Page 271 - Castle, on the western shore of Lorn, compelled it to surrender, and placed in that principal strong-hold of the Mac-Dougals a garrison and governor of his own. The elder Mac-Dougal, now wearied with the contest, submitted to the victor; but his son, " rebellious," says Barbour," as he wont to be,
Page 271 - betaken himself to the galleys which he had upon the lake; but the feelings which Barbour assigns to him, while witnessing the rout and slaughter of his followers, exculpate him from the charge of cowardice : "To Jhone off Lome it suld displese, I trow, quhen he his men mycht se,
Page 271 - from Barbour with some surprise) crossed by a bridge. This bridge the mountaineers attempted to demolish, but Bruce's followers were too close upon their rear; they were, therefore, without refuge and defence, and were dispersed with great slaughter. John of Lorn, suspicious of the event, had
Page 332 - The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 338 - like a bladder, and is sometimes set down upon the dirt in the street; three or four goatskins: a piece of wood for an axletree to one of the little carts, &c. With the produce of what each of them sells, they generally buy something, viz., a horn or wooden spoon or two, a knife, a wooden platter,
Page 148 - When death's dark stream I ferry o'er, A time that surely shall come, In heaven itself I'll ask no more Than just a Highland welcome.
Page 268 - Lorn's followers, whose names Barbour calls Mackyn-Drosser (interpreted Durward or Porterson), resolved to rid their chief of this formidable foe. A third person (perhaps the Mac-Keoch of the family tradition) associated himself with them for this purpose. They watched their opportunity until Bruce's party had entered a pass between a lake (Loch Dochart probably) and a precipice, where the king, who was
Page 270 - and of course might rather be considered as petty princes than feudal barons. They assumed the patronymic appellation of Mac-Dougal, by which they are distinguished in the history of the Middle Ages. The Lord of Lorn, who flourished during the wars of Bruce, was Allaster (or Alexander) Mac-Dougal, called Allaster of Argyll. He had married the third daughter of John, called the Red Comyn,