A print from a disbound book of Scotland published 1900. Blank on the reverse, this has been trimmed from the original page size to fit boarded envelope, scan shows the trimmed page being sold.
Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 10.75" x 8.25" or 27.5cm x 21cm, including text and border.
Average image size approx 9" x 6.5" or 22.25cm x 16.5cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.
1900 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
INVERNESS: FROM TOMNAHURICH.
The acknowledged capital of the Northern Highlands is built near the mouth of the River Ness, and is the centre of traffic through the Caledonian Canal. The environs are beautiful, and many prospects of the surrounding country very fine. The best view of the city itself is probably from a peculiar bill called Tomnahurich (" hill of the fairies "), which rises from the plain in the shape of an upturned boat, about a mile to the south-west, between the River Ness and the Caledonian Canal, which here forks away from the river to its own mouth at Clachnaharry. The top of the hill is beautifully laid out as a cemetery. So far back as 1723 Defoe mentions the pure English speech of the Inverness folk, which he attributes to the long occupation by Cromwell's soldiers; and the peculiarity remains to this day.