Angus M'Diarmid

“ One who, on the summits of the Grampian mountains, with a mind of kindred grandeur, treads habitually, as it were, in the sky, naturally acquires a loftiness of thought, inconceivable to the inhabitants of humble regions. ”

“ Those who are fond of literary curiosities, will doubtless account themselves fortunate in having an opportunity of perusing these truly curious Delineations of the grand and picturesque Scenery around Loch-Earn: and they will probably be inclined to wonder, that an untaught Highlander, whose thoughts have seldom wandered beyond his native mountains, should have been able to express himself in terms of such unparallelled sublimity. ”

“ Stuich-achroin is a famous wild rock laying adjacent westward to Bein-vourlich, from which her easter point opposite to Bein-vourlich, a most curious rising pinnacle, or sharp elevation, to a great extent higher than the rest of her lamented, perphery, external, orbicular limits; which sharp pinnacle coming in so gradually that its several sides meets in one at the highest point, which its apparition at distant is an object of curiosity existing in wild resemblance, an amazement excavated of ground between those rocks, goes onward of rising ground, to the highest surface of its edge. ”

“ With tumid emotions of heart-distending pride, and with fervescent feelings of gratitude, I beg leave to acknowledge the honour I have to serve so noble a master, and the many advantages which I, in common with your Lordship’s other menials, enjoy from the exuberance of your princely liberality. ”

“ If the flights of our Author be too high for the languid imaginations, or obtuse intellectual vision of his Southern readers, he may, perhaps, be induced, in some future edition; to lower himself nearer to their level. ”

“ Anciently, in the vicinity of the said lake, a notorious robber inhabiting a cave or hollow, running horizontally below the form of the old road there, where his cruel sagacity perceived by the ear the people passed and repassed there, ravening them with perpetrate force of all the money would appear in their custody, who was such a violent assaulter, that it was timorous for the wayfaring to pass in the proximity of his concavity under any cloud of the night. ”

“ In the ancient time, when the woods was more copious repletion both on the hills and on the level than it is at present, particular the oaks, which woods was a habitation to voracious wild animals, such as wolfs, which animal would slipped imperceptibly to houses, eluding observation, when the people at the field acting in their domestic management, a certain man, after being disengaged of his dies employment, upon his return to his house, he directed his eyes through the window to meet hypochondrical discovery of his youngest child on the one side of the fire, and the wolf on the other side. ”

“ One remarkable astonishment, rising from the naturity of the abovementioned cataract, in worthiness of observation, that its noise so loud anterains, that it will sounded in the ears of the weary travellers at a great distant, which is antecedently token of the venit season: The effect of its force carving such elegant circle in the rocks, on the verge of its limited bounds, that it will mighty exceed the most cunning hewers. ”

“ With a due tenderness for the Author’s reputation, not a word nor a letter has been altered from his manuscripts; and we trust it is not too sanguine to hope, that they will excite in every reader, an interest similar to that which we feel in ushering them into the world. ”

“ It should not be omitted to give summary account of the famosity cataract at Glenbeicli, defining the excellencies of its remarkable existence. The potent stream goes down off ferine rock to wild hollow of great length downward; of which hollow, its mouth’s circle, consisting of a large extent each way, coming in gradually to narrow compass, ascending to the bottom; the easter wing of the said hollow advancing from the bottom to the top in a slope obliquely existence; its northward articulate part a high wild rock of perpendicular face ”

“ The propriety of forming the idea of removing with their cattle to the shealings, tending to spare the pasture of the low ground during their time there; but the men continuing their habitation on the level, attending on the farms and other domestic afairs; the shealings detached from each other. The cattle was numerous, that sojourners seized with astonishment, overhearing the bleating of the sheep, and lowing of the black cattle, morning and evening, when they were feeding the young ones from their breasts. ”

“ In the time of old, a man of uncommon strength, called by first name Envie, who was on some emergent occasion pursued by his enemies, being thirsty to be satiated of his blood, who became languid in consequence of his weary lassitude by the sanguinary pursuit of his enemies, in the directtion of the course of shunning the approaching hazard, he leaned on the stone above-mentioned, who was forthwith surrounded by his pursuers ”

“ Another island, at the fit end of the foresaid lake, in anciently notorious assultors inhabited, wherein they were beheaded, in consequence of felonious conduct, by a valiant gentleman of Macnab, who, on the execution of that purpose, has contribute the assistance of other three in bearing a boat from a far distant, on their shoulder, over mountainous ground, in dead time of night. By which intellectual plan, got in to the island, and forthwith finished the ravished inhabitants. ”

“ The within-mentioned barbarous man, for his incoherent transactions, had his pistol once standing in need of being repaired, or to be restored after injury of dilapidation which happened in his practical sanguinary engagement; at which time three men arrived to a place that was not laying a great distant from his habitation, which men were cunning in brass and an iron work. ”

“ The people at that time have the use of the intellectual faculties, that the power of their ear of judging of harmony, or any tune of pipe or fiddle, so intelligent to them, as although were it be in terms of communicating to them orally. ”

“ Wells within the limited bounds of the above mentioned mountains, particularly on the compass of Bein-Each, that their coolness would mightily refresh the weary traveller in the hottest dies; the penetrate sense of their excellencies might urge the wayfarer to drink luxuriously. ”

“ If he was he father to whom that soiled garment belongs, that he deprived many other of their life before himself fall in the action, and that would be for no vale to him to lay hand on a man in the afflicted posture he was, having the resemblance of death in his countenance already ”

“ Which occurrence in lower degree would enforce many to retire; but in state of that he shewed such splendid courage that he swimed over that of the river near Killin’s Inn, in that posture, to his habitate, to have himself extricated of the arrows. The day after that fatal day, a valiant number of Breadalbane people, or tenants, went after the ravishers, and took the prey back, after killing the ravishers utterly, except about two escaped. ”

“ Who can harbour the deplorable case of the slains relictly friend, by the discovery of the bloodshed partly gushing from their endearments amours. Reciprocal relations in the secular life, how their minds affected of bemoaning feeling; womens bewailing over the deprivation of their correlative husbands ”