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Not a foot of good soil but had its ploughing, or at least gave food to some useful animal, and yet so rocky the hills between us and lower Lochow, so tremendous steep and inaccessible the peaks and corries north of Ben Bhuidhe, that they were relegated to the chase. There had the stag his lodging and the huntsman a home almost perpetual.
And there was no end to the sports and pastimes that occupied day after day. On their first expedition up the lonely corries of Ben-an-Sloich young Ogilvie brought down a royal hart though his hand trembled for ten minutes after he pulled the trigger. They shot wild duck in Loch Scridain, and seals in Loch-na-Keal, and rock-pigeons along the face of the honey-combed cliffs of Gribun.
But the westward island, rising in one lofty volcanic mass which hides the eastern island from view, is perhaps, for mere grandeur, the grandest in the Archipelago. The mountains among which are, it is said, fourteen extinct craters range upward higher and higher toward the southern end, with corries and glens, which must be, when seen near, hanging gardens of stupendous size.
Jean's eyes were shining, and she had forgotten to be awkward and tongue-tied. "I remember," said Lord Bidborough. "And the wonderful descriptions 'I know corries in Argyle that whisper silken' ... do you remember that? And the last scene of all when John Splendid rides away?" "Do you cry over books, Jean?" Pamela asked.
No doubt the snowflakes, in corries on the mountain-side, do look deliciously cool on a hot summer day. But such a drizzling rain as this was the other side of the picture, which her Majesty, with a shiver, called "cold, wet, and cheerless."
To those corries of my native place will be coming in the yellow moon of brock and foumart the beasts that dote on the autumn eves the People of Quietness; have I not seen their lanthoms and heard their laughter in the night? so that they must be blessed corries, so endowed since the days when the gods dwelt in them without tartan and spear in the years of the peace that had no beginning.
"Besides all this, you have the river making a graceful bend in front of your future drawing-room windows, and a vista of the valley away to the left, with a rocky eminence on the right, whence baboons can descend to rob your future orchard at night, and sit chuckling at you in safety during the day, with a grand background of wooded gorges, or corries, as you Scotch have it, or kloofs, according to the boers and a noble range of snow-clad mountains to complete the picture!"
The thing crawled up my body, and I saw two red eyes fixed on mine, and deemed it had been a wild cat, such as lives in our corries of the north a fell beast if brought to bay, but otherwise not hurtful to man. There the red eyes looked on me, and I on them, till I grew giddy with gazing, and half turned my head with a stifled sob.
It was an afternoon in autumn, with a sound of wintry breakers on the shore, the tall woods copper-colour, the thickets dishevelled, and the nuts, in the corries of Ardkinglas, the braes of Ardno, dropping upon bracken burned to gold.
Angus M'Aulay mumbled over a number of hard Gaellic names, descriptive of the difficult passes, precipices, corries, and beals, through which he said the road lay to Inverary, when old Donald, who had now entered, sanctioned his master's account of these difficulties, by holding up his hands, and elevating his eyes, and shaking his head, at every gruttural which M'Aulay pronounced.
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