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  2. Literature.

    AT 5 o'clock we left Fort William. Rather a fine morning ; but very squally and the sea rough, even where we were When we came on deck, we were close to the Isle of Fura, which ...

    Article : 793 words
  3. PROGRAMME.

    "The stone being prepared and suspended over that upon which it is to rest (in which will be a cavity for the bottle containing the parchment and the coins) : ...

    Article : 512 words
  4. FIRST ASCENT OF LOCH-NA-GAR.

    At half-past 9 o'clock Albert and I set off in a post chaise, and drove to the bridge in the wood of Balloch Buie, about five miles from Balmoral, where our ponies and people were. ...

    Article : 788 words
  5. THE FIRST STAY AT ALT-NA-GIUTHASACH.

    After writing our letters, we set off on our ponies, with Miss Dawson, Macdonald, Grant, Batterbury, and Hamis Coutts; Hamis is Gaelic for James, and is pronounced " Hamish." The ...

    Article : 507 words
  6. LOCH MUICH.

    We reached the hut at 3 o'clock. At halpast 4 we walked down to the loch, and got into the boat with our people: Duncan, Brown,[?] P. Cotes,[?] and Leys rowing. They rowed mostly ...

    Article : 281 words
  7. ASCENT OF BEN-NA-BHOURD.

    At half-past 10 o'clock we set off with Lady Douro and Ernest Leiningen,* and drove to Invercauld, about three-quarters of a mile beyond the house, where we found our people and ponies, ...

    Article : 556 words
  8. THE KIRK.

    We went to Kirk, as usual, at 12 o'clock. The service was performed by the Rev. Norman McLeod, of Glasgow, son of Dr. McLeod, and anything finer I never heard. The sermon, ...

    Article : 188 words
  9. BUILDING THE CAIRN ON CRAIG GOWAN, &c.

    This day has been a very happy, lucky, and memorable one—our last! A fine morning. Albert had to see Mr. Walpole, and therefore it was nearly 11 o'clock before we could go up ...

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  10. TORCH-LIGHT BALL AT CORRIEMULZIE.

    We dined at a quarter-past 6 o'clock in morning gowns (not ordinary ones, but such as are worn at a " breakfast,") and at 7 started for Corriemulzie, for a torch-light ball in the open ...

    Article : 369 words
  11. ARRIVAL AT THE NEW CASTLE AT BALMORAL.

    At a quarter-past 7 o'clock we arrived at dear Balmoral. Strange, very strange, it seemed to me to drive past, indeed through, the old house; the connecting part between it and the offices ...

    Article : 134 words
  12. A BEAT IN THE ABERGELDIE WOODS.

    At a quarter-past 11 we drove (the three gentlemen going in another carriage) to the road along which we went with Lord Portman the other day, and up to a small path, where I ...

    Article : 362 words
  13. IMPRESSIONS OF THE NEW CASTLE.

    The view from the windows of our rooms, and from the library, drawing-room, &c., below them, of the valley of the Dee, with the mountains in the background,—which one never ...

    Article : 102 words
  14. THE GATHERING.

    We lunched early, and then went at half-past 2 o'clock, with the children and all our party, except Lady Douro, to the Gathering at the Castle of Braemar, as we did last year. The ...

    Article : 278 words
  15. ACCOUNT OF THE NEWS OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S DEATH.

    We were startled this morning, at 7 o'clock, by a letter from Colonel Phipps, enclosing a telegraphic despatch with the report, from the sixth edition of the Sun, of the Duke of ...

    Article : 1,274 words
  16. A "DRIVE" IN THE BALLOCH BULE.

    At a quarter past 10 o'clock we set off in a postchaise with Bertie, and drove beyond the house of Mr. Farquharson's keeper in the Balloch Buie. We then mounted our ponies, ...

    Article : 693 words
  17. LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS.

    Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band ...

    Article : 459 words
  18. NEWS OF THE FALL OF SEVASTOPOL.

    Mama, and her lady and gentleman, to dinner. All were in constant expectation of more telegraphic despatches. At half-past 10 o'clock two ...

    Article : 506 words
  19. SALMON LEISTERING.

    We walked with Charles, the boys, and Vicky to the river side above the bridge, where all our tenants were assembled with poles and spears, or rather " leisters," for catching salmon. They ...

    Article : 205 words
  20. VISIT TO THE DHU LOCH, &c.

    The morning was very fine. I heard the children repeat some poetry in German, and then at 10 o'clock we set off with Lady Douro in our carriage, and drove on beyond Inch ...

    Article : 688 words
  21. LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF OUR NEW HOUSE.

    A fine morning early, but when we walked out at half-past 10 o'clock it began raining, and soon poured down without ceasing. Most fortunately it cleared up before 2, and the sun shone ...

    Article : 189 words
  22. Our nephew.

    Now Sir Charles Forbes, of Castle Newe. A work recently published, entitled "Highlanders of Scotland, by Kenneth Macleay, Esq., R.S.A., contains excellent portraits of some of the men of these and ...

    Article : 419 words
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