...poetry which so frequently characterises the shepherd and hunter, recalling the words of Scott : — " O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood."* In tracing the effect of the physical condition of a country on man, we must not limit ourselves to...

...Kinlochleven in the Scottish Highlands. CHAPTER XIII THE BRITISH ISLES (NATURAL REGIONS) SCOTLAND " O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...brown heath and shaggy wood. Land of the mountain and fhe flood." — Scott. (a) THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS. THE Highlands of Scotland rise wall-like from the...

...sportsman, who, after leaving the 'shires' and its luxuries, is not repelled by finding himself in the ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood.' On Monday the 23d, the Lamerton Hounds met at Sydenham, the seat of J. Tremayne, Esq., MP for East...

...him over the side of " the machine." " Just feel that," he said. CHAPTER IV ON THE CROMARTY FIRTH " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." SCOTT. ON the east of Ross-shire, on either side of the Cromarty Firth, and between the Firths of Moray...

...rising sun, For at dawning to assail ye Here no bugles sound reveille.' SIR WALTER SCOTT. HEATHER "O Caledonia! stern and wild! Meet nurse for a poetic...shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." SCOTT, Lay of the Last Minstrel. It may be that four-fifths of Scotland is unfit for cultivation but...

...been rousing the echoes with Auld Lang Syne, &c. and indulging in corresponding train of ideas "On the land of Brown Heath and Shaggy Wood," "Land of the Mountain and the flood." Evening surpassingly beautiful. The blue concave is cloudless and lit up with the starry hosts. Venus...

...naturally by his love of the mists, clouds and fogs and all out-of-doors life. He was born in that " 'Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. . . . ' and his fellow townsman, Sir Walter might have added " 'Land of engineers and much east wind.'...

...hour, that I am come back not only to the land of beautiful natural characteristics, not only to the ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. Land of the mountain and the flood '— (applause) — but I am come back to that which is better still, to the land which has that prerogative...

...Hebe ; the average Highlander, especially if an exile, would revel in pictorial reminders of the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood," the Norwegian in the scenery of his rugged Fjords, trie Dutchman in the flat and foggy picturesqueness...

...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. Here we have a whole nexus of motifs: the wanderer in danger of losing native roots, nostalgia for...