Leaves From the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, From 1848 to 1861

[32] The same who, in 1858, became my regular attendant out of doors everywhere in the Highlands; who commenced as gillie in 1849, and was selected by Albert and me to go with m...

To Kirk at twelve o’clock. The Rev. J. Caird, one of the most celebrated preachers in _Scotland_, performed the service, and electrified all present by a most admirable and beau...

When we were on the level ground again, where it was hard and dry, we all got off and walked on over the shoulder of the hill. We had not gone far when we descried Lord Dalhousi...

I saw ptarmigan get up, and Albert fire--he then disappeared from my sight, and I rode on. It became cold and misty when we were on _Loch-na-Gar_. In half an hour, or rather les...

A mild night. Home by ten minutes past eight, enchanted with our day. How I wish we could travel about in this way, and see _all_ the wild spots in the _Highlands_! We had gone...

The view from both batteries is splendid, like a panorama in extent. We saw from them _Heriot’s Hospital_, a beautiful old building, founded, in the time of James, by a goldsmit...

The weather, which had been dreadful, cleared up, just as we reached _Glasgow_, about eleven, and continued fine for the remainder of the day. Several addresses were presented o...

We got back to the “Fairy” by half-past two, and returned to _Greenock_, escorted by nineteen steamers. Steamed past _Greenock_, and went on towards _Loch Long_, passing _Rosene...

At nine o’clock we set off on ponies, to go up one of the hills, Albert riding the dun pony and I the grey, attended only by Lord Glenlyon’s excellent servant, Sandy McAra, in h...

We also saw _Glenartney_, the mountain on which Lord Willoughby has his deer forest. We passed by Sir D. Dundas’s place, _Dunira_, before we changed horses at _Comrie_, for the...

We drove as we did yesterday. Fine and very wild scenery, high wild hills, and no habitations. We went by the _Pass of Drumouchter_, with fine hills on both sides and in front o...

Safely arrived here: I now continue my account. For the first two hours and a half the sea, though rough, was not disagreeable. We entered _Waterford Harbour_ yesterday at twent...

During one of the Editor’s official visits to Balmoral, her Majesty very kindly allowed him to see several extracts from her journal, relating to excursions in the Highlands of...

We then returned to our carriage, and proceeded to the pier by a shorter road, and through a different part of the town. There is a peculiar elm-tree in the island, which is ver...