The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes, Volume 15W. Creech, 1795 - Scotland |
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Page 304 - Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends ; White are the decks with foam ; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud ; Pale, trembling, tired, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears \— So pale the Greeks the eyes of Hector meet, The chief so thunders, and so shakes the fleet.
Page 22 - Bonnington, in 1708. From its uppermost room it affords a very striking prospect of the fall; for all at once, on throwing your eyes towards a mirror on the opposite side of the room from the fall, you see the whole tremendous cataract pouring us it were upon your head.
Page 40 - Families from any quarter possessed of a good moral character, and having three children fit for work, above nine years of age, are received — supplied with a house at a moderate rent, and the women and children provided with work.
Page 526 - ... up to Kinnoul hills, where the Danish camp had lately been, that he might have a prospect of the fine country lying below, great part of which was to be his inheritance, he made choice of the falcon's flight. The bird took its flight from the top of one of these hills, and it alighted on a stone by the river of Tay, a mile to the south of the house of Ki vol.
Page 214 - This holy man had a ram. That he had fed up of a lam ; And oysit hym til folow ay, Quherever he passit in his way. A theyt' this scheppe in Ackien stal, And et hym up in pecis small.
Page 201 - The poor man had been confined to his bed for a year and a half, having almost entirely lost the use of his limbs. On the evening of Handsel Monday, as it is called, some of his neighbours came to make merry with him.
Page 201 - Monday, as it is called, some of his neighbours came to make merry with him. Though he could not rise, yet he always took his share of the ale, as it passed round the company ; and, in the end, became much intoxicated. The consequence was, that he had the use of his limbs the next morning, and was able to walk about. He lived more than twenty years after this, and never had the smallest return of his old complaint.
Page 518 - It rests on the plain surface of a rock, level with the ground. Its shape is quadrangular, approaching to the figure of a rhombus, of which the greater diagonal is seven feet, and the 'lesser five. Its medium thickness is about two feet and a half; its solid contents will, therefore, be about fifty-one cubical feet.
Page 14 - III. a grant of the revenues of this hospital, within the burgh of Lanark, upon condition that he and his heirs should provide a qualified person to celebrate three masses, once every seven years, and for ever, for the repose of the souls of Robert, Annabella, his queen, and all their children.
Page 13 - Lanark is now to be seen i . - ., , , ,. , amiquities.r rams, about a quarter of a mile to the south-east or the town. The date of its construction is not known. It has been an elegant Gothic building of hewn stone, divided in the middle from one end to the other by a wall supported upon pillars, forming five or six fine arches ; and around it is the burying ground and cemetery of th