The Quarterly Review, Volumes 256-257William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1931 |
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Page 132
... Boreray , and Dłn , their areas , respec- tively , being 1575 , 244 , 190 , and 80 acres . In addition , the group comprises a number of isolated stacks , some of which attain considerable altitude . Three such stacks lie in the channel ...
... Boreray , and Dłn , their areas , respec- tively , being 1575 , 244 , 190 , and 80 acres . In addition , the group comprises a number of isolated stacks , some of which attain considerable altitude . Three such stacks lie in the channel ...
Page 133
... Boreray is the worst of the group . It is possible to leap on to the rocks of Boreray only when the boat rises on the wave . Each person after landing has to scramble up some three hundred feet of cliff with a rope round his waist for ...
... Boreray is the worst of the group . It is possible to leap on to the rocks of Boreray only when the boat rises on the wave . Each person after landing has to scramble up some three hundred feet of cliff with a rope round his waist for ...
Page 136
... Boreray , and at a height of more than a thousand feet above the Atlantic . They also breed on the smaller islets , and on the two great stacks adjoining Boreray . The fulmar petrel and the puffin are the two birds most in evidence on ...
... Boreray , and at a height of more than a thousand feet above the Atlantic . They also breed on the smaller islets , and on the two great stacks adjoining Boreray . The fulmar petrel and the puffin are the two birds most in evidence on ...
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