Travels In Scotland 1842 By Jg Kohl PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...over which the majesty of Britain rules, and now I am arrived here among the poor inhabitants of the little village of Kenmore, who boast to have been attached to the illustrious family of Breadalbane, from time immemorial, as vassals and namesakes. " I chose this place as the extreme limits of my journey in romantic Caledonia, beyond which I do not wish to carry my steps; while the battlements of the far-famed castle arise in its neighbourhood, under whose roof, as I am told, a pleasing altar has been The Scots make a distinction between chief and chieftain. The former is the head of the whole clan; the hitter is only the head of a part or branch of the clan. " The Saxon word thane, the taini of Domesday-book, is assuredly derived from the Celtic tanaist," cays Logan. Hence probably the chief-thane or taini, (chieftain.) The tanaist, during the life of the chief, led the army, filling the office of captain-general to the chief--hence subordinate to the chief, as the thanes were subordinate to the king.--Trans. erected to the household gods of jour ladyship; and while the lovely green carpet of its park is spread around, on which, as fame relates, the elves and water-nymphs, the dryads and wood-gods, have been particularly active in forming a picture of nature, worthy of being displayed before the windows of your castle. " Night, indeed, now covers the valley with envious darkness; and some there are who would have inspired me with the fear, that the day of the Elysium in which your ladyship abides would never rise on me. " But I cannot resign hope, and I now venture to appeal to your kindness, and to prefer the request, that, at your ladyship's commands, the closed gates of your palace may be opened to me, and that the hundred-eyed...