 | James Fraser - 1798 - 378 pages
...Landing here is very difficult and dangerous ; for, if any ftorm blow, ye cannot enter becaufe of the •violence of the fwelling waves, which beat with...force, have come up over the walls of the garrifon OR the court before the prifoners chambers, which is above twenty cubits height : and with a full fen... | |
 | Andrew Crichton, John Blackader - Covenanters - 1826 - 384 pages
...because of the swelling waves which beat with a wonderful noise upon the rock, and sometimes in such a violent manner, that the broken waves, reverberating on the rock •with a mighty force, come up over the walls of the garrison on the court before the prisoners' chambers, which is above... | |
 | James Aikman - Covenanters - 1842 - 586 pages
...violence of the swelling waves, which beat with a wonderful noise upon the rock, and sometimes in such a violent manner, that the broken waves reverberating...a mighty force, have come up over the walls of the garrison on the court before the prisoners' chambers, which is above twenty cubits height. And with... | |
 | William King Tweedie - Scotland - 1847 - 554 pages
...violence of the swelling waves, which beat with a wonderful noise upon the rock, and sometimes in such a violent manner, that the broken waves, reverberating...a mighty force, have come up over the walls of the garrison on the court before the prisoners' chambers, which is above twenty cubits height: and with... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pages
...violence of the swelling waves, which beat with a wonderful noise on the rock, and sometimes in such a violent manner that the broken waves, reverberating on the rock with a mighty force, have come up to the walls of the garrison. With a full sea you must land ; or if it be ebb, you must either be cranned... | |
 | World, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1870 - 822 pages
...violence of the swelling waves, which beat with a wonderful noise upon the rock, and sometimes in such a violent manner that the broken waves, reverberating on the rock with a mighty force, have come up the walls of the garrison, on the court before the prisoners' chambers, which is above twenty cubits... | |
 | James Moir Porteous - Bass Rock (Scotland) - 1881 - 128 pages
...because of the swelling waves, which beat with wonderful noise upon the rock, and sometimes in such violent manner that the broken waves, reverberating on the rock with a mighty force, have come up the walls of the garrison, on the court before the prisoners' chamber, which is 20 cubits height. And... | |
 | 1885 - 588 pages
...violence of the swelling waves, which beat with a wonderful noise upon the rock, and sometimes in such a violent manner that the broken waves, reverberating on the rock with a mighty force, have come up the walls of the garrison, on the court before the prisoners' chambers, which is above twenty cubits'... | |
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... but in regard no minister was allowed for it, the ammunition of the garrison was kept therein. Landing here is very difficult and dangerous, for if any storm blow, ye cannot enter because of the violence of the swelling waves, which beat with a wonderful... 