Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ... might return in peace. Halbert looked to the right and left; no smoke curling its grey mist from behmd the intersecting rucks, reminded him of the gladsome morning hour, or invited him to take a moment's rest from his grievous journey. All was lonely and desolate; and sighing bitterly over the wide devastation, he concealed the fatal sword under his cloak; and by means of a staff which he broke from a withered tree, he walked resolutely, though feebly, down the winding way; but many a pointed craig pierced his aged feet as he explored the almost trackless paths which, by their direction, he h"*"i would lead him towards the deep caves of Coria CHAPTER IV. The poor old minstrel of the house of Wallace, after having traversed many a weary rood of, to him, before untrodden ground, exhausted by fatigue, sat down on the declivity of a very steep craig. The burning beams of the mid-day sun now beat upon the rocks; the overshadowing foliage afforded him shelter; and a few brambles, which knit themselves over the path which he had yet to explore, with a draught of water from the passing brook, were all the food that offered to revive his enfeebled limbs. Insufficient as they appeared, he took them, blessing Heaven for sending ev en these; mnd after half an hour's rest, he again grasped his staff to pursue his way. Aftfcr breaking a passage through the entangled shrubs which grew across the only possible tooting in this solitary wilderness, he went along the side of the burn which now, at every turning of the rocks increased in depth and violence. The rills from above, and other mountain streams pouring into it from abrupt falls down the craigs, covered him with spray and intercepted his passage. Finding it impracticable to proceed through...