...groups of mountains horrible to behold."2 So late as 1773 Dr. Johnson said of the Highlands of Scotland: "An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving...of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care."s In the same year Hutchinson deprecates the "dreary vicinage of mountains and inclement skies"...

...passed was mountainous, and on the scenery the doctor makes many of his characteristic observations : " An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests...form or usefulness, dismissed by Nature from her care and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen...

...Rome became the mistress of the world.'1 CHAPTER XL I. OWKR THE MUIR AMANG THE HEATHER. " THK hills are almost totally covered with dark heath, and even...repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility." Such is Dr Johnson's picture of a Highland landscape. Captain Burt writes to the same effect, and calls...

...seems to be checked in its growth. What is not heath is nakedness, a little diversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An eye, accustomed...form or usefulness dismissed by Nature from her care, and disinherited by her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen...

...of the world, and the sea drives us back to the hills. Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, " The appearance is that of matter incapable of form...or usefulness, dismissed by Nature from her care." The poor blear-eyed doctor was no poet. Like Charles Lamb, he loved the sweet security of streets....

...of the world, and the sea drives us back to the hills. Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, " The appearance is that of matter incapable of form...or usefulness, dismissed by Nature from her care." The poor blear-eyed doctor was no poet. Like Charles Lamb, he loved the sweet security of streets....

...of the world, and the sea drives us back to the hills. Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, " The appearance is that of matter incapable of form...or usefulness, dismissed by Nature from her care." The poor blear-eyed doctor was no poet. Like Charles Lamb, he loved the sweet security of streets....

...seems to be checked in its growth. What is not heath is nakedness, a little diversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An eye accustomed...extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that monstrous creatures of God know how to join so much beauty with so much horror. A fig for your poets,...

...of accommodation, that Scotland only can supply.'— Gray's Works, edit. E. Gosse, vol. iii. p. 223. of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only by one sullen...

...seems to be checked in its growth. What is not heath is nakedness, a little diversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An eye accustomed...hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter 5 incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by Nature from her care and disinherited of her favours,...