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"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 wordsAt 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 wordsAfter 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 wordsWe 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 wordsAt 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 wordsWe 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 wordsThis 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 ...
Article : 822 wordsWe 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 wordsAt 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 wordsAt 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 wordsThe 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 wordsWe 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 wordsWe 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 wordsAt 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 wordsLand 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 wordsMama, 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 wordsWe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 wordsNow 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 ...
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The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), Sat 6 Jun 1868, Page 2
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