Lord of the Isles (Coronet Books)
““It will be a tight squeeze,” he announced. “The shape will be uneven. But I think that it will serve. Just sufficiently large. I make it four-hundred-and-seventy-two paces around. One-hundred-and-forty paces in greatest length, north to south. Less wide at the north than this south end, forty as against one-hundred-and-ten—as much difference as that. With something of a bite out of it yonder, at the cliff. If we brought the stonework lower there, part way down the cliff, that would help. I do ...not think that the shape being irregular would greatly signify. It is much the best site.”
The others, sprawling on the grass in the warm sunshine, made no comment, looking scarcely interested. This had been going on for an hour.
“It commands the head of this inner Loch Moidart, the mouths of both the rivers, Shiel and Moidart, as well as this shallow bay of Doirlinn,” he went on. “Forby, there is this wet hollow here—if I mistake not, this is a spring welling up through the rock.MoreLess
The others, sprawling on the grass in the warm sunshine, made no comment, looking scarcely interested. This had been going on for an hour.
“It commands the head of this inner Loch Moidart, the mouths of both the rivers, Shiel and Moidart, as well as this shallow bay of Doirlinn,” he went on. “Forby, there is this wet hollow here—if I mistake not, this is a spring welling up through the rock.MoreLess
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