 | Caesar Otway - 1827 - 462 pages
...descended to the west, presented sundry shelves or vallies, in each of which lay a round and beauteous lake. These Tarns looked like mirrors set in the mountain's...shall record of this surpassingly interesting hill. Before I retire from my mountain— (I love to linger on its recollections) — I shall observe, that... | |
 | Caesar Otway - 1827 - 438 pages
...descended to the west, presented sundry shelves or vallies, in each of which lay a round and beauteous lake. These Tarns looked like mirrors set in the mountain's...over, studded with islands, sufficiently wooded to cS be ornamental, finished the whole picture, and formed the last beauty and curiosity I shall record... | |
 | Caesar Otway - 1839 - 414 pages
...presented sundry shelves or valleys, in each of which lay a round and sparkling c 18 MOUNTAIN TARNS. lake. These Tarns looked like mirrors set in the mountain's...shall record of this surpassingly interesting hill. Before I retire from my mountain — (I love to linger on its recollections) — I shall observe, that... | |
 | 1856 - 586 pages
..."But directly under us a most curious picture was to be seen ; the mountain on which we [stood, as ¡' descended to the west, presented sundry shelves or...shall record of this surpassingly interesting hill. " The Lake of Garton is one of the finest of those numerous sheets of water which are interspersed... | |
 | James MacDevitt (bp. of Raphoe.) - 1866 - 276 pages
...descended to the west, presented sundry shelves or valleys, in each of which lay a round and beauteous lake. These tarns looked like mirrors set in the mountain's...shall record of this surpassingly interesting hill."* From Kilmacrenan, the road traverses hilly ground, enlivened by views of the valley of the Lannan,... | |
 | William Frederick Wakeman - 1889 - 522 pages
...ocean lay the promontory of Horn Head, so called from a cliff at its extreme point, where it parts the Atlantic, having the form of a horn ; a place...the mountain a large expanse of water, a mile or two overstudded with islands, sufficiently wooded to be ornamental, finished the whole picture, and formed... | |
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... lake. These Tarns looked like mirrors set in the mountain's side to reflect the upright sun ; and five or six of such sheets of silver presented themselves, until at the very root of the mountain, a large expanse of water, a mile or two over, studded... 