Friday, January 25, 2008

The Magic of Place

The Big Bent-Covered Hillock
The Big Rock Face at Twisted Gully
The Tongue of the Black Cape
The Norseman's Channel
The Reef of the Jura Men
The Pass of the Yellow-Rattle Pool
The Glen of the Baglike Plain
The Skerry of the North-Facing Creek
The Shelter of the Miserable Women
The Temple of the Glen
Fair Malcolm's Fishing Rock
Red Archibald's Fishing Rock
Bald Kenneth's Daughter's Fishing Rock
The Fishing Rock of the Crabfish's Heel
The Well of the Speckled Thicket
The Well of the Red Trickle
Foul Puddle
Foul Harbor
The Little Terrace at the Head of the Dike
The Lifting Stone
The Pierced Stone
Fever Rock
McPhee's Standing Stone
McPhee's Black Gully
McPhee's Hiding Bed
The Foot of the Birch Wood
Extremity of the Speckled Point
Red Angus's Field
Gray Samuel's Boat Pool
The Corpse Island Eddy
The Island of the Scalasaig Women
The Periwinkle Cleft
The Little Black Waterfall
The Pool Between Two Pools
The Little Loch of the White Calf
The White-Rumped Extremity
The Lady Cave
The Danger Cave
The Ruins of the House of Boisterous Angus
The Ruins of the House of Duncan of the Gold

- John McPhee, The Crofter and the Laird

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