The Hebrid Isles
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ISBN13: 9780217083256
Paperback|9780217083256
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: marble tomb closed in at the eastern side of the ruin, the last meeting-place of the Campbells of Dunstaffnage. Still more lovely is Inishail. It is a little island in the centre of Loch Awe?the great fresh water lake stretching for miles at the base of Ben Cruachan. At one extremity there is the ruins of a convent of Cistercian nuns; at the other, the old burial-place whither the dead are brought over water to this day. Low and silent, the isle floats upon the mighty loch, with its little load of dead. Once in a year, in the summertime, the sky falls, and lies in one sheet of delicious blue-bells over the island, so that it looks a blest place indeed: one soft azure stain on the loch, in the long dreamy days when the water is a glassy mirror; and the adjoining Black Isles cast their wooded reflections deep, deep down, into the crystal gulf on which they swim. In the old days the dead-boat would move slowly hither, to the melancholy music of the bagpipes, echoing faint and far over the water; and still, at long intervals, it comes, but without the old weird music. CHAPTER III. THE HEART OF LORNE. Standing on the island of Inishail, you see outstretched before you one of the loveliest scenes in the world?the whole glorious expanse of Loch Awe, with its wooded and castled isles, the dark mouth of the Pass of Awe, and the towering heights of Ben Cruachan. This, indeed, may well be named the Heart of Lome; for out of the mighty sheet of water innumerable brooks and rivulets stretch like veins to nourish all the land. The great mountain towers above, 'varying momently hiscrest, ' and surveying the outstretched map of the Hebrides as far north as Canna, and as far south as the headland of Cantyre. The ancient legend of Loch Awe is preserved in the beautiful tale of Bera. ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217083256 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217083250 |
| Weight | 0.84 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 In |
| List Price | $20.49 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 256 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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