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A good boat with oars and sails shall be his reward." By the time that Duncan had told his tale, Allan Redmain's two strong galleys were abreast of the isle of Coll, and steering into a beauteous bay that Duncan had told of, they were rowed far in until they stood under the strong-built fortress of Breacacha. The garrison had been reinforced by many men from the ships of Coll.
The sand has of late been blown over a good deal of meadow, and the people of the island say, that their fathers remembered much of the space which is now covered with sand, to have been under tillage . Col's house is situated on a bay called Breacacha Bay. We found here a neat new-built gentleman's house, better than any we had been in since we were at Lord Errol's. Dr.
It was horrible, if barrenness and danger could be so. I heard him, after we were in the house of Breacacha, repeating to himself, as he walked about the room, "And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind, dies." Probably he had been thinking of the whole of the simile in Cato, of which that is the concluding line; the sandy desart had struck him so strongly.
Allan Redmain drew away the garments and revealed a gaping sword wound. "No; not dead," moaned Duncan. "He yet lives. But oh, my masters, hasten to his aid, for he is even now a helpless prisoner in the dark dungeon of Breacacha Castle!" "A prisoner?" echoed Allan. "Breacacha?" said Sir Piers. "Where is that castle? In what isle?" "Over in Coll," said Duncan, pointing westward across the sea.
It is called Breacacha, or the Spotted Field, because in summer it is enamelled with clover and daisies, as young Col told me.
We set out after dinner for Breacacha, the family seat of the Laird of Col, accompanied by the young laird, who had now got a horse, and by the younger Mr M'Sweyn, whose wife had gone thither before us, to prepare every thing for our reception, the laird and his family being absent at Aberdeen.
Nature of sea-sickness. Burnet's History of his own Times. Difference between dedications and histories. October 5. People may come to do anything by talking of it. The Reverend Mr. Hector Maclean. Bayle. Leibnitz and Clarke. Survey of Col. Insular life. Arrive at Breacacha. Dr. Johnson's power of ridicule. October 6. Heritable jurisdictions.
They were standing out to sea, with seven great Norse galleys and as many fishing boats pursuing them." "Alas!" said Allan; "and whose ships were those?" "They were three galleys of Coll and four of Colonsay," said Duncan, "as I learned three days past when they returned to Breacacha. Our own four ships of Bute came not within sight again, and I fear they have gone back to Rothesay."
You would think of Edinburgh or London, and that you could not be there. We set out after dinner for Breacacha, the family seat of the Laird of Col, accompanied by the young laird, who had now got a horse, and by the younger Mr. M'Sweyn, whose wife had gone thither before us, to prepare every thing for our reception, the laird and his family being absent at Aberdeen.
When the day's light fell upon the sea my lord Kenric came to me, and, said he, 'Duncan, launch me the longboat with a dozen men, and come with me, for I will now land upon this island and seek for the king's castle. So thereupon we landed. "Not long had we been ashore when from the top of a little hill we saw, above the next bay, the castle that men call Breacacha.
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