Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 sider |
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... bait by Robertson . As they were not seriously injured , he wished to bring them home alive . This would have been an impossibility to most people , as there is but one way of carrying them with any degree of safety it is by placing the ...
... bait by Robertson . As they were not seriously injured , he wished to bring them home alive . This would have been an impossibility to most people , as there is but one way of carrying them with any degree of safety it is by placing the ...
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... bait , and a little basket of provi- sions ; and I my duck - gun loaded with No. 6 for the dotterels . Poor little fellows ! They looked so pretty that it was a shame to fire at them . But as I had no specimen in my collection , I could ...
... bait , and a little basket of provi- sions ; and I my duck - gun loaded with No. 6 for the dotterels . Poor little fellows ! They looked so pretty that it was a shame to fire at them . But as I had no specimen in my collection , I could ...
Side 17
... bait , provisions , and pea - jacket , were making for Port Sonachan Quay , where I had directed them to meet me . The morning was colder , the wind had changed I from west to east , " a bad airt A PLEA FOR THE WASTES . 17.
... bait , provisions , and pea - jacket , were making for Port Sonachan Quay , where I had directed them to meet me . The morning was colder , the wind had changed I from west to east , " a bad airt A PLEA FOR THE WASTES . 17.
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... bait or loch fishing , ) who can work his hooked fish scientifically , will seldom be deficient in all the prerequisites of fixing him ; while the rising man who has only fished preserved waters , where all is clear and open , should he ...
... bait or loch fishing , ) who can work his hooked fish scientifically , will seldom be deficient in all the prerequisites of fixing him ; while the rising man who has only fished preserved waters , where all is clear and open , should he ...
Side 35
... bait being so gaudy , but it is ruinous to fly - fishing . If a par has been trailed over a salmon , there is little chance of its rising to the fly for some time , perhaps not even for that day . The Scotch peasantry have invented a ...
... bait being so gaudy , but it is ruinous to fly - fishing . If a par has been trailed over a salmon , there is little chance of its rising to the fly for some time , perhaps not even for that day . The Scotch peasantry have invented a ...
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Side 1 - Fortunately for mankind, as some counterbalance to that wretched love of novelty which originates in selfishness, shallowness, and conceit, and which especially characterizes all vulgar minds, there is set in the deeper places of the heart such affection for the signs of age that the eye is delighted even by injuries which are the work of time...
Side i - THE MOOR AND THE LOCH. Containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, with Wanderings over Crag and Correi, Flood and Fell. By JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq. Third Edition. 8vo, with Illustrations, 12s. 6d. SALMON-CASTS AND STRAY SHOTS: Being Fly-Leaves from the Note-Book of JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq., Author of * The Moor and the Loch,