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Description: | View of Glen Croe in the Western Highlands in Scotland. This glen has a particularly dark and gloomy atmosphere and travellers to Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries remarked on its gothic character. John Leyden, in his ‘Journal of a tour in the Highlands and Western islands of Scotland in 1800’, called Glen Croe ‘the most desolate place under heaven’. Dorothy Wordsworth wrote the following words of the area, “…- the brrok, the road, bare hills, floating mists, scattered stones, rocks, and herds of black cattle, being all we could see, - I shivered at the thought of being sickly and alone, travelling from place to place”. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | Sarjent, F. J. | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Walmsley, Thomas | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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