 | 1831 - 62 pages
...variety of the prospect. Valleys, lakes, and rivers, diversify the face of the country to a great extent; from this all the principal mountains of Scotland, and no less than nineteen lakes, are visible. In short, there is here every thing that is calculated to fill man with a deep sense of his own utter... | |
 | William Beattie - 1838 - 336 pages
...— a prospect in which Nature is contemplated in her wildest and most awful form. From this point, all the principal mountains of Scotland, and no less than nineteen lakes, are visible. So extensive, indeed, is the view, that it is hardly possible to convey even a faint idea of it in... | |
 | 1839 - 324 pages
...the prospect. Valleys, lakes, and rivers, diversify the surface of the country, to a great extent; from this all the principal mountains of Scotland,...to reach the top in favourable weather. The great body of Ben Lomond, like that of all primitive mountains, is formed of granite, and micaceous schistus,... | |
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... Nature in her wildest and most awful form is here to be contemplated. Mountains rise upon mountains in all the dignity of irregularity, till the eye is lost in the vastness and astonishing variety of the prospect. Valleys, lakes, and rivers, diversify... 