By 1907 perhaps Alice had decided it was time for a change from Strathspey for she and Caleb travelled to Fort William on the West Highland railway which had opened 13 years before in 1894. Caleb missed the Cairngorms and the weather ...
And in that awareness, as you look out from the summit of Arthur's Seat, other places andideas come into view. For here, perched abovethe great river, we see out and beyond into the Scottish landscape. And itis fortuitous, if nothing ...
Allen, John, Cairngorm John. Sandstone Press, Dingwall, 2009 Borthwick, Alastair, Always a Little Further. Faber and Faber, London, 1939 Brown, Hamish, Hamish's Mountain Walk. Gollancz, London, 1978 —— Climbing the Corbetts.
To the west he had a perfect view of the Forth Rail Bridge, its red reflection stretching across the firth. Further to his left loomed the silhouette of Arthur's Seat, the extinct volcano in the heart of Edinburgh.
Ranges of grim stone houses and sprawling suburbs now hem in the road and hide the view of Arthur's Seat and its neighbouring eminences; but a few steps to the left serve to disclose them, the little loch of St. Margaret, and the ruined ...
Notes 1 John Gascoigne, Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite 6 Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 92. The phrase 'an enlarged view' is taken from Thomas Falconer's letter to Sir ...