Synopsis
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Moray Frith into the land-locked bay of Cromarty, he sees on the left, crowning a swell of green upland which runs crescent-like along the coast, a pillar of red sand-stone, rising fifty feet into the air, and sumiomited by a statue. The few white houses, embowered in garden foliage, which form the better part of the village of Cromarty, cluster beneath ;and the sea, faced by a row of thatched fishermens cottages, comes rippling, at every flow of the tide, to within a bow-shot of its base. The statue represents a grave, strong-built man, of massive head and thoughtful face, who seems to look out steadfastly upon the waves. Statue and pillar constitute the monument reared by his countrymen to Hugh Miller. Almost at the foot of the pillar stands a humble cottage, and on the sward from which it rises is placed the village churchyard. In that cottage Hugh Miller was bom; and during his boyhood and early youth he was dependent on a widowed mother, who maintained herself and her family by the sedulously plied but indifferently remunerated labour of her needle.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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