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Updated: June 14, 2025
Southward all was green and whaup-haunted to the grey hip of Pentland, and we saw the spread of the countryside when we that is, Freddie and I went down the Dalkeith Road to the red-roofed hamlet of Echobank. Here, four times a week we bought a canful of milk that had to do us two days.
The Pentland roared and raged a bit, but the sea has her Master. She hears a voice we cannot hear. It says only three words, Mr. Hatton, three words we cannot hear, but a great calm follows them." "And the three words are ?" "Peace! Be still!" Then John Hatton looked with a quick understanding into his Captain's face, and answered with a confident smile,
After a few weeks of experience, however, the fascinating search for nerve and muscle, tendon, vein, and artery becomes the dominating state of consciousness, and the scientific spirit excludes all resentment at the disagreeable. Pentland Compound possesses another feature in pleasing contrast to the dissecting shed.
Here is evidently what I would call petuntze strata, or porcelane stone, that is, strata formed by the deposits of such materials as might come from the detritus of granite, arranged at the bottom of the sea, and consolidated by heat in the mineral regions. We have precisely such stratified masses in the Pentland hills near Edinburgh.
Between Simpelius and Pentland are several ring- plains, most of which appear to have been squeezed and deformed into abnormal shapes. CURTIUS. A magnificent formation, about 50 miles in diameter, with one of the loftiest ramparts on the visible surface, rising at a mountain mass on the N.E. to more than 22,000 feet, an altitude which is only surpassed by peaks on the walls of Newton and Casatus.
This, at such an hour of the night, surprised me greatly; but I was too ignorant to draw the true conclusion that we were going north-about round Scotland, and were now on the high sea between the Orkney and Shetland Islands, having avoided the dangerous currents of the Pentland Firth.
"I wonder whether I can get anybody to go with me to Pentland. I can't find my way in the dark." "I will go with you to-morrow morning." "But what shall I do to-night?" "I'll tell you. Come home with me. The folks will take you in, and the horse can be put up in the barn." Harry hesitated "I suppose they will feel anxious about me over at Pentland. They won't know what has become of me."
These trials were of a most searching and exhaustive character, lasting over a full week, at the end of which came the coal-consumption test, consisting of a non-stop run northward at full speed, through the Pentland Firth, round Cape Wrath; then southward outside the Hebrides and past the west coast of Ireland, thence from Mizen Head across to Land's End; up the English Channel and the North Sea, to her starting-point.
He was intrusted with a commission to levy the fines imposed by the Privy Council for non-conformity, in the district of Dumfries and Galloway. In this capacity he vexed the country so much by his exactions, that the people rose and made him prisoner, and then proceeded in arms towards Mid-Lothian, where they were defeated at Pentland Hills, in 1666.
At Swanston he explored the hills alone and grew to know them so well that the Pentland country ever remained vividly in his memory and found its way into many of his stories, notably "St. Ives," where he describes Swanston as it was when they first made it their summer home.
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