...Abbey," said Lady Mary, " you see I am determined you shall take a pleasing recollection away of our ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood.' " " We cannot say ' shaggy wood,' " said Roland, " in looking on this beautiful scene." It was six...

...worth; Such objects to no transient ties, No frail and fleeting sympathies, Must evermore give birth. " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, " Land of the mountain and the flood," As thy own bard hath sung; " What shall untie the filial band " Which knits unto thy rugged strand"...

...Magazine, and the popular lines of Scott, the " Wizard oftheNorth," beginning with the couplets, " О Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Their influence was great upon me, and I yearned to get among the Buchanans and the Camerons, the clan...

...separated from that country for many years, I can yet apply to it the language of the northern bard — ' ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e're untie that filial band Which binds me to thy rugged strand ? ' ' But the particular point to which...

...sentiment so finely expressed by the silver-haired minstrel—the last of his race: 1 0 Caledonia '• stem and wild ! Meet nur.se for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shn^srr wood ; Land of the mountain and the flood ; Land of my siren 1 what mortal hand Can e'er untie...

...myself, sir, I confess that I love Scotland. I have reason to do so. I have trod the soil of the Laud of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, • I have looked up to the cloud-capt summit of Ben Lomond ; have glided among the fairy islets of...

...scale, and of a much sterner character, than English scenes. Well may the Scotch muse exclaim — " О Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Laud of the mountain and the flood ! " We usually speak of Scotch people as if they were all alike...

...not "Auld lang syno," " Roslin Castle," and still more, the sacred, venerable, and ancient melodies "Caledonia, stern and wild. Meet nurse for a poetic child ; Land of brown heath and shnggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood ?" And have you not in the enthusiasm of the moment,...

...as a most useful and elegant vade mecmn to all explorers of Scottish scenery."— Railway Record. 4 Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood.'" Maidstone Journal. " Sylvan's Pictorial Hand-book to the Clyde and its Watering places is illustrated...

...Scott. As a boy he had travelled over that, his native country, which the poet has celebrated as the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood !" His family residence was in Kilburn, and therefore not far from Abbotsford, where he had often visited...