When the ships disappeared we put out to sea, and next morning we met with another, just coming out of one of the lochs who pursued us near an hour; but the wind rising we made our escape.
This must be a mistake, tho' it be so in the other copy too, for none of the lochs has so much bounds as to allow of such a drive from an intended harbour.
Thanks to its irregular serpentine outline, and to the desolate majesty of the hills which environ it, Lough Veagh, though not a large sheet of water, may well be what it is reputed to be, a rival of the finest lochs in Scotland.
Countless littlelochs give sparkle and life to it.
The fish will, however, rise in tidal water and in a few localities even in the sea itself, or in salt-water lochs into which streams run.
Across the water lay the beautiful north shore, broken by the long narrow sea-lochs running far away among the Argyleshire hills.
Highlandmen came from the opposite shores and from the lochs down the Clyde, men caring little for Lowland law, but duly impressed by a display of force.
Our streams and lochs are like the rivers and pools in Germany, that have all their Wasser Nixe, or water witches, and I have a fancy for these kind of amphibious bogles and hobgoblins.
Perthshire, crossed by the West Highland Railway; Lochs Rannoch and Tummel lie to the E.
Callander, stretching for about a mile between Lochs Katrine and Achray, is charmingly wooded; is celebrated by Sir Walter Scott in his "Lady of the Lake.
The neighbourhood of the lochs was a sort of guidance in some degree, for their immediate presence gave to a nostril sharpened by life in the wild a moist and peaty odour fresh from the corroding banks.
I only in the humour for playing at shinty or fishing like the boys on the moor-lochs behind the town.
The superiority of flavour of the herring taken in our great land-locked salt-water lochs is undoubted.
It's not by any means impossible or even unlikely that the Germans have utilised the lonely lochs and creeks to some sinister purpose.
Many of the lochs are entirely hidden by surrounding mountains, which come right down to the edge of a narrow opening, and make the place almost unnoticeable unless you happen to be looking for it.
The shores, especially the western and northern, are beautifully fringed with narrow lochs and steep indentures of the sea, making the coast picturesque beyond description.
His magnificent estate lay in Argyleshire, where the mountains are fringed with lochs in the most picturesque manner.
Many picturesque lochs nestle among the hills, in whose placid waters is mirrored the sky in the brilliant variations of day and night.
He celebrated the green fields, the lochs and mountains near the scene of his nativity, and was rewarded with the approving smiles of the family circle.
Luce Bay separates the Mull of Galloway from a broader promontory in which the lochs of Mochrum are perhaps the finest nook.
Angling can be had in a chain of some dozen lochs drained by the Thurso river that runs through the county from south to north, at the mouth of which over 2500 salmon were once netted in one haul.
Here the not impecunious traveller might tarry long to visit the islands around or the lochs and falls inland.
The River Teith, with Lochs Achray and Vennachar, Perthshire 60 22.
This is not a guide-book that can afford to expatiate in small print on all the aisles and monuments of this grand estuary, with its lochs opening like side chapels.
A grenadier;" and in walked "The Angler's Companion to theLochs and Rivers of Scotland, by Thomas Tod Stoddart.
The Angler's Companion to the Rivers andLochs of Scotland.
It is indeed strange that this gem of sea lochs is not better known, now that a railway brings one to its very shores.
Keep him frae teegers and lions, and bogles and black horses that come oot o' lochs and eat ye up, and frae the green monkeys that hing on to trees and claw ye as ye gang by.
For he had often swam much further at the piers of Leith and Trinity, as well as much longer in the many lochs which are girt like a girdle of jewels round about his native city.
Nobody can explore or appreciate the beauty of the Scotch lochs without a 'kettle.
Long tracts of country there are, comparatively unvisited--for example, the district around Lochs Ericht and Lydoch, and the deserts towards the head of the Spey.
Stornoway, in the parish of Lochs, so named from the number of its sea lochs and fresh-water lakes.
The Vendace is only known in the lochs in the neighbourhood of Lochmaben, in Dumfriesshire.
We shall merely go cruising about those wonderful lochs and islands, and I am sure to run against some of those young fellows I know, who are prowling about the fishing-villages with portable easels.
At length they came upon the brow of the hill overlooking Gara-na-hina[2] and the panorama of the westernlochs and mountains.
But then Sheila can throw a fly and play her sixteen-pounder, and Sheila can adventure upon the lochs in an open boat, managing the sail herself; and then I find her to be a tom-boy.
About four miles from the junction we reached Spean Bridge, over which we crossed the river of that name, which brings along the waters of sundry lochs as well as others from the valley of Glen Roy.
Fort Augustus stands at the extremity of Loch Ness, at the point where its surplus waters are lowered by means of locks to swell those of Loch Oich, so as to make both lochs navigable for the purposes of the Caledonian Canal.
In Scotland it prefers salt-water lochs and sandy bays to the open sea, though occasionally seen some miles from land.
He went in pursuit of a flock which had selected for their winter feeding-place some fresh-water lochs about half a mile from the sea.
Rarely found on inland waters, it does not even visit the fresh-water lochs which, in many places in the north, are only separated from the sea by a bar of sand and shingle.
One can scarcely traverse the shores of the salt-water lochs of Scotland without seeing a pair, or, in the latter part of the year, a small party of four or five of these birds, gravely pacing the shingle and sand in quest of food.
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