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Title: Motoring aboard
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Presbrey, Frank Spencer, 1855- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nd forlorn exceptfor these and the heather. The exquisite little**Bluebells of Scotland peeped up everywherethrough the heather as the brilliant red poppiesdid in the waving grainfields of France. Everylittle while we passed shooting-lodges, and wesaw several parties beating the moors for pheas-ants with their dogs and drivers, as the seasonhad opened just prior to our visit. Some of thehunting lodges were magnificent affairs, and theywere generally erected on a hillside overlookingthe beautiful valley which we were following. Iwas told that the prices charged for the leasesof these shooting preserves had reached absurdand fabulous figures on account of the demandfor them by millionaire Americans. The Pass ofKilliecrankie through which we passed is wherethe Duke, whom John Drew made famous inAmerica through one of his plays, is supposedto have lived. It is a gem of nature, resemblingsome of the well-known notches in the WhiteMountains. At noon we reached Pitlochry, a favorite sum- 188
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3 09 a C « c eo tt ■->> O 5: V ■^ « •5 a Wbt jWoorsJ of ^cotlanb mer resort where there are a large number ofsanitariums, and stopped at Fishers Hotel forluncheon. We had intended to spend the after-noon there visiting the near-by places of interest,but it was raining so hard that we concludedthere was little to do in the way of sightseeingwith comfort, and that we might as well pushon to Inverness. We met at Pitlochry Major Walter Fry, aretired English army officer who was spendingthe summer there in photographing, betweenspells of Scotch mist, the beautiful scenery inthe neighborhood and in fishing in the near-bysalmon streams. He gave me many valuablesuggestions as to what to see farther north inScotland and since our return has sent meseveral photographs of this region, a few ofwhich are reproduced in this volume. We stopped an hour at Pullars Hotel, Kin-gussie, about thirty miles north of Pitlochry,for tea, and then pushed on forty-six milesfurther to Inverness, arr

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