Who Said What About Scottish Mountains, also known as "Marilyns" and "Munros"

Hills of all fashions and forms and tints; mountains which rear their heads like waves which are curling aloft to break, and have been petrified in the poise...The ghastly cheek of Arkle is that of one who knows his next step - the grave. The terrific peak of Coul Beg was surely so cast as a conductor to break that livid vapour, and draw the lightening's flash...The lurid gloom which hangs under the lowering crests of Foinaven, and rolls steaming up that grim trench of Dionard...The tremendous gash, cintured by Craig Riavach's cliff's...can scarcely be ought else than one of the Gates of Hades.

.....quoted in The Geognosy and Mineralogy of Scotland, by M. Forster Heddle, MD, FRSE, 1880

THE MIST ON TINTO, in Lanarkshire

On Tintock tap there is a mist,
And in that mist there is a kist,
And in that kist there is a caup,
And in that caup there is a drap,
Take up the caup and drink the drap,
And set the caup on Tintock tap.

.....Traditional

THE CUILLEN HILLS OF SKYE
When you come suddenly for the first time on the Coolins, your mouth opens and you really do gasp. Imagine Wagner's 'Ride of the Valkyries' frozen in stone and hung up like a colossal screen against the sky.
It seems as if Nature when she hurled the Coolins up into the light of the sun said: 'I will make mountains which shall be the essence of all that can be terrible in mountains.'

.....H.V. Morton, In Search of Scotland, 1929

THE TROSSACHS

The Trossachs are like a traveller's sample of Scottish scenery. They remind me of those small tins of biscuits which firms send out beautifully packed to indicate a range of manufactures. If you like them, you can order larger quantities.

......H.V. Morton, In Search of Scotland, 1929.

BEN LOMOND

Leave Ben Lomond where it stands.

......Scottish proverb

BEN NEVIS

Yesterday we went up Ben Nevis, the highest Mountain in Great Britain. I am heartily glad it is done - it is almost like a fly crawling up a wainscot. Imagine the task of mounting 10 Saint Paul's without the convenience of Staircases.

......John Keats, Letter to Thomas Keats, 3 August 1818.

Doubtless the ascent of Ben Nevis is considered a mighty deed; and, in consequence, there are various named inscribed on the cairn within the plain; while some had been written on scraps of paper, and enclosed in bottles which had been drained of their whisky by the valiant who had reached this perilous point of honour.
Is there a man so unworthy of a name, were it even Macguffog or Bumfit, as not to desire that it should be heard of hereafter; even did it prove no more than that its owner had emptied a whisky bottle on Ben Nevis.
If I read names here that none but the godmothers and gossips had ever heard of, and none but the sexton would ever hear of again, there was not one of them all who did not feel a secret satisfaction in...reflecting that some future MacJock or MacTaw would read that Angus MacLehose or Dugal Mac Breeks had been able to scratch his name here on a slate with a horseshoe nail.

...THE HIGHLANDS AND WESTERN ISLES OF SCOTLAND, CONTAINING DESCRIPTIONS OF THEIR SCENERY AND ANTIQUITIES, with an annount of the POLITICAL HISTORY AND ANCIENT MANNERS, and of the ORIGIN, LANGUAGE, AGRICULTURE, ECONOMY, MUSIC, PRESENT CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE, &c. &c. &c.

Founded on a SERIES OF ANNUAL JOURNEYS BETWEEN THE YEARS 1811 AND 1821, AND FORMING A UNIVERSAL GUIDE TO THAT COUNTRY, IN LETTERS TO SIR WALTER SCOTT, BARD By John Macculloch, M.D., F.R.S. , L.S. ,G.S. &c. &c. &c.
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GLENCOE

In the Gaelic tongue, Glencoe signifies the Glen of Weeping: and in truth that pass is the most dreary and melancholy of all the Scottish passes, the very Valley of the Shadow of Death. Mists and storms brood over it through the greater part of the finest summer; and even on those rare days when the sun is bright, and when there is no cloud in the sky, the impression made by the landscape is sad and awful.
... Mile after mile the traveller looks in vain for the smoke of one hut, or for one human form wrapped in a plaid, and listens in vain for the bark of a shepherd's dog, or the bleat of a lamb. Mile after mile the only sound that indicates life is the faint cry of a bird of prey from some storm beaten pinnacle of rock. The progress of civilisation which has turned so many wastes into fields yellow with harvests or gay with apple blossoms, has only made Glencoe more desolate.

......T.B. Macaulay, History of England, 1849—61

Along the road from Ballachulish where the river Coe pours into Loch Leven is a comfortable little village which boasts the most grotesque signpost in the British Isles:

THE VILLAGE OF GLENCOE, SCENE OF THE FAMOUS MASSACRE
TEAS AND REFRESHMENTS, TOBACCO AND CIGARETTES

......H.V. Morton, In Search of Scotland, 1929

Glencoe itself is perfectly terrible. The pass is an awful place. It is shut in on each side by enormous rocks from which great torrents come rushing down in all directions. In amongst these rocks on one side of the pass (the left as we came) there are scores of glens, high up, which form such haunts as you might imagine yourself wandering in, in the very height and madness of a fever. They will live in my dreams for years — I was going to say as long as I live, and I seriously think so. The very recollection of them makes me shudder.

......Charles Dickens, Letter to John Forster, 9 July 1841

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