 Nothing can be more wildly beautiful than the situation of Dunolly. The ruins are situated upon a bold and precipitous promontory, overhanging Loch Etive, and distant about a mile from the village and port of Oban.  The Lord of the Isles: A Poem - Side 303af Walter Scott - 1815 - 443 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Scottish tourist - 1845 - 522 sider
...very picturesque situation, upon the summit of a great basaltic rock, precipitous upon three sides. The principal part which remains is the donjon or...buildings, overgrown with ivy, attest that it had once been a place of importance, as large apparently as Dunstaffnage. This was the ancient Castle of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 408 sider
...many Highland chiefs lost theirs. Nothing can be more wildly beautiful than the situation of Dunolly. The ruins are situated upon a bold and precipitous...overhanging Loch Etive, and distant about a mile from the vill ige and port of Oban. The principal part which remains is the donjon or keep ; but fragments of... | |
 | Staffa - 1850 - 186 sider
...describes the Castle of Dunolly : — ' Nothing can be more wildly beautiful than the situation of Dunolly, The ruins are situated upon a bold and precipitous...once a place of importance, as large apparently as Ardtornish or Dunstaffnage. These fragments enclose a courtyard, of which the keep probably formed... | |
 | 1851 - 704 sider
...that once powerful family.* • " Nothing can be more wildly beautiral than the situation of Dunolly. The ruins are situated upon a bold and precipitous promontory overhanging Loch TENTH TOUR. OBAN TO SKYE. TOURISTS visiting Skye generally start from Glasgow t>y steamer, or if they... | |
 | 1852 - 710 sider
...observed proudly seated on a rugged steep. For an engraving of this Castle we refer the reader to the Etive, and distant about a mile from the village and port of Obon, The prtaripul part which remains is the donjon or keep ; but fragments of other build iiws, overgrown... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 sider
...Highland chiefs lost theirs. Nothing can be more wildly beautiful than the situation of Dnnolly. Tbe ruins are situated upon a bold and precipitous promontory, overhanging Loch Etive, and distant about а mile from tbe village and port of Oban. The principal pan which remains is the donjon or keep ;... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 sider
...described by Sir Walter Scott : " Nothing can be more wildly beautiful than the situation of Dunolly. The ruins are situated upon a bold and precipitous...it had been once a place of importance, as large, probably, as Ardtornish or Dunstaffnage. These fragments enclose a court-yard, of which the keep probably... | |
 | 1855 - 518 sider
...described by Sir Walter Scott : " Nothing- can be more wildly beautiful than the situation of Dunolly. The ruins are situated upon a bold and precipitous...it had been once a place of importance, as large, probably, as Ardtomish or Dunstaffnage. These fragments enclose a court-yard, of which the keep probably... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 sider
...Dunolly. The ruiim are situated upon a hold and prL-cipiloin promontory, overhauling Loc'h Ktivi-, ami distant about a mile from the village and port of Oban. The prinrip>il pan which rcmamx \t the donjon or keep ; but frngmenl* of other buildingn. over^^own with... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1856 - 826 sider
...precipitous promontory overhanging the bay of Oban, and distant about half a mile from the village. The principal part which remains is the donjon or...buildings, overgrown with ivy, attest that it had once been a place of importance, as large, apparently, as Ardtornish or Dunstaffnage. These fragments... | |
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