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... GLEN CANYON DAM Page ARIZONA ¡ River R Gunnison CURECANTI DAMS NAVAJO DAM Farmington NEW MEXICO A WHITE CONCRETE MONOLITH BETWEEN RED CLIFFS , HARNESSING THE WATERS OF THE TURBULENT COLORADO RIVER THIS IS GLEN CANYON DAM Glen Canyon Dam ...
... GLEN CANYON DAM Page ARIZONA ¡ River R Gunnison CURECANTI DAMS NAVAJO DAM Farmington NEW MEXICO A WHITE CONCRETE MONOLITH BETWEEN RED CLIFFS , HARNESSING THE WATERS OF THE TURBULENT COLORADO RIVER THIS IS GLEN CANYON DAM Glen Canyon Dam ...
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Glen Echo Park Foundation Adventure Theatre 320-2330 Our dreams for Glen Echo Park are coming true . The Glen Echo Park Foundation has obtained at $ 300,000 Maryland State Bond ( which requires a matching amount for release of funds ...
Glen Echo Park Foundation Adventure Theatre 320-2330 Our dreams for Glen Echo Park are coming true . The Glen Echo Park Foundation has obtained at $ 300,000 Maryland State Bond ( which requires a matching amount for release of funds ...
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... Glen Academy , et al To enable the judges to determine whether recusal is necessary or appropriate , an attorney for a non - governmental party or amicus curiae , or a private attorney representing a government party , must furnish a ...
... Glen Academy , et al To enable the judges to determine whether recusal is necessary or appropriate , an attorney for a non - governmental party or amicus curiae , or a private attorney representing a government party , must furnish a ...
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... Glen . There are glass french doors in that room and a beautiful stone terrace just outside with a commanding view of the Berkshire hills . Within five minutes of sitting there , the play began . It was daytime , but in my mind it was ...
... Glen . There are glass french doors in that room and a beautiful stone terrace just outside with a commanding view of the Berkshire hills . Within five minutes of sitting there , the play began . It was daytime , but in my mind it was ...
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... Glen Baxter Glen Baxter Returns to Normal published in London in 1992 by Bloomsbury Publishing . First U.S. edition published in New York in 1994 by Random House . © 1992 Glen Baxter . Glen Baxter's Gourmet Guide published in London in ...
... Glen Baxter Glen Baxter Returns to Normal published in London in 1992 by Bloomsbury Publishing . First U.S. edition published in New York in 1994 by Random House . © 1992 Glen Baxter . Glen Baxter's Gourmet Guide published in London in ...
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Abbey Aberdeen Aberdeenshire ancient arches Argyleshire Ayrshire banks beautiful breadth Bridge building built called Canal Castle Cave celebrated century Chapel Church Clyde coast contains crosses distance Duke Dumbartonshire Dumfries Dunkeld Earl east edifice EDINBURGH elegant eminence erected Falkirk feet in height Ferry Fifeshire Firth formerly forms Fort Augustus four miles Glasgow Glen Gothic Greenock Haddington half a mile handsome harbour Highlands Hill inhabitants Inverary Inverness Inverness-shire Inveruglass island James Kirk Kirkcudbright lake Lanark Loch Erne Loch Katrine Loch Lomond lofty Lomond Lord mansion manufacture mile distant miles long modern mountains neat north side parish Perth Perthshire PORT PATRICK principal residence rises river road Robert Bruce rock Roman royal burgh ruins scenery Scotland Scottish seat shore situated South Queensferry south side stands Stirling stone Street summit surrounded three miles tourist tower Town House Tweed vale vicinity village woods
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Page 227 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 227 - Far from me and from my friends, be 30 such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona...
Page 227 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Page 295 - Where, thro' a shapeless breach, his stream resounds; As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless Echo's ear, astonished, rends. Dim-seen, thro' rising mists, and ceaseless show'rs, The hoary cavern, wide-surrounding, low'rs. Still, thro...
Page 295 - AMONG the heathy hills and ragged woods The roaring Fyers pours his mossy floods, Till full he dashes on the rocky mounds, Where, thro' a shapeless breach, his stream resounds. As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As 'deep recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewless Echo's ear astonished rends. Dim-seen, thro...
Page 164 - Oft stay thy steps, oft taste the cordial drop, And rest, oh ! rest, long, long upon the top. There hail the breezes, nor with toilsome haste, Down the rough slope thy...
Page 253 - ... which give them an apparent motion of different degrees of velocity, as the spectator rides along the opposite beach. At other times his road is at the foot of rugged and stupendous cliffs, and trees are growing where no earth is to be seen. Every rock has its echo ; every grove is vocal, by the melodious harmony of birds, or by the sweet airs of women and children gathering filberts in their season.
Page 195 - ... a romance in stone and lime." Immediately below Abbotsford, the Tweed is joined from the north by Gala water, whose youths are celebrated in song, as " the braw lads o' Gala water," and extolled as matchless, even by those of " Ettrick shaws and Yarrow braes," in one of Burns's beautiful lyrics.* * On the banks of the Gala, about a mile above its confluence with the Tweed, lies Galashiels, which a few years ago was a small village, but is now a place of considerable importance, and, considering...
Page 95 - Trelawney, the mansion is said to have as many windows as there are days in the year.
Page 378 - The STRANGER'S GUIDE to the PLAINS of WATERLOO, &c., exhibiting, on a large Scale, the Positions of the Armies on the 15th, 16th, -17th, and 18th of June, 1815. Done up in a portable form, 4s.