Winter Evening Tales: Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of ScotlandEdinburgh University Press, 2002 - 601 pages "Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoughtful and deeply-felt response to the Highland Clearances. He gives vivid pictures of his experiences, including a narrow escape from a Navy press-gang, and a Sacrament day with one minister preaching in English and another in Gaelic. Hogg also explains aspects of Gaelic culture such as the waulking songs, and he describes the trade in kelp, lucrative to the landowners but back-breaking and ill-paid for the workers. Highland Journeys makes a refreshing contribution to our understanding of early nineteenth-century travel writing"--Publisher description. |
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Page 117
... hill , the north side being all like a smooth sheet of ice . I soon discov- ered that the task of getting down from the hill was likely to be a much more arduous one than that of ascending it , for I was obliged to take such short steps ...
... hill , the north side being all like a smooth sheet of ice . I soon discov- ered that the task of getting down from the hill was likely to be a much more arduous one than that of ascending it , for I was obliged to take such short steps ...
Page 175
... hill opposite to her father's house , where I lay in a bush , and watched the doors and windows with as much anxiety as a devout heathen ever did the rising of the sun . If she would only but take a walk up the side of the river ...
... hill opposite to her father's house , where I lay in a bush , and watched the doors and windows with as much anxiety as a devout heathen ever did the rising of the sun . If she would only but take a walk up the side of the river ...
Page 331
... hill , some- where in that neighbourhood , and thither the king and his lords repaired with all expedition . But the tinckell was then but thin , the country not having been sufficiently apprised of the king's arrival ; the ground was ...
... hill , some- where in that neighbourhood , and thither the king and his lords repaired with all expedition . But the tinckell was then but thin , the country not having been sufficiently apprised of the king's arrival ; the ground was ...
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