Diversions of a Country Gentleman (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Diversions of a Country GentlemanThousand feet in height, seemed to hang before us like a curtain, drawn to shut out the un known, and ever as we approached it, rising and descending, the solitude grew yet more intense. Even the sheep, which constitute this wild world's populace, though here not a numerous one, were at this hour withdrawn from the hill-tops into the valleys. Of grouse we saw but one ¿ock, and even of smaller birds, such as the lark and whin lintie, ' by no means many. In the world of plants, which we studied in a desultory way as we walked, we observed nothing more remarkable than the Sphagnum, a grey moss, used by gardeners in growing orchids. Cotton-grass was somewhat scanty. Wild thyme, abundant and in ¿ower, helped to fill the atmosphere with a soft elusive fragrance. That familiar hill-¿ower, the tiny yellow potentilla, looked up at us from the ground-level, and a row or two of the beautiful pink blooms of the heather-bell added the softening touch of 'grace and refinement to the rough scene about us - the diminished realm and last retreat of the long-dispossessed god Pan.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.