 Their bedsteads were then like cupboards in the wall, with doors to be opened and shut at pleasure, so as we climbed up to our beds. They used but one sheet, open at the sides and top, but close at the feet, and so doubled.  Picture of Edinburgh - Page 394by John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1825 - 392 pages
...upon acquaintance or entreaty. Their bedsteads were then like cupboards in the wall, with doors to be opened and shut at pleasure, so as we climbed up...sides and top, but close at the feet, and so doubled. Passengers did seek a stable for their horses in some other place, and did there buy horse-meat, and... | |
 | Books - 1825 - 392 pages
...upon acquaintance or entreaty. Their bedsteads were then like cupboards in the wall, with doors to be opened and shut at pleasure, so as we climbed up...sides and top, but close at the feet, and so doubled. Passengers did seek a stable for their horses in some other place, and did there buy horse-meat, and... | |
 | Books - 1825 - 390 pages
...upon acquaintance or entreaty. Their bedsteads were then like cupboards in the wall, with doors to be opened and shut at pleasure, so as we climbed up...sides and top, but close at the feet, and so doubled. Passengers did seek a stable for their horses in some other place, and did there buy horse-meat, and... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1825 - 388 pages
...upon acquaintance or entreaty. Their bedsteads were then like cupboards in the wall, with doors to be opened and shut at pleasure, so as we climbed up...sides and top, but close at the feet, and so doubled. Passengers did seek a stable for their horses in some other place, and did there buy horse-meat, and... | |
 | James Mitchell - Scotland - 1825 - 798 pages
...upon acquaintance or entreaty. Their bedsteads were then like cupboards in the wall, with doors to be opened and shut at pleasure, so as we climbed up...our beds. They used but one sheet, open at the sides «nd top, but close at the feet, and so doubled. When passengers go to bed, their custom was to present... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 812 pages
...measure peculiar ; their favourite instrument, the bagpipe, though enthusiastically admired by the climbed up to our beds. They used but one sheet, open at the i-ides and top, but close ¡<t the feet, and so doubled. — When pasbengers go to bed, their custom... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1894 - 668 pages
...have made special impression on more than one English traveller. Fynes Moryson, writing in 1598, Bays 'they used but one sheet, open at the sides and top but close at the feet and so doubled ' • and John Kay, the naturalist, who visited Scotland about 166^, remarks that ' it is the manner... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1858 - 574 pages
...Their bedsteads were then like cupboards in the wall, with doors to be opened and shut at pleasure; so we climbed up to our beds. They used but one sheet,...sides and top, but close at the feet, and so doubled [still practised, and a comfortable custom it is] 'When passengers go to bed, their custom was to present... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1858 - 568 pages
...'Their bedsteads were then like cupboards in the wall, with doors to be opened and shut at pleasure; so we climbed up to our beds. They used but one sheet,...sides and top, but close at the feet, and so doubled [still practised, and a comfortable custom it is] When passengers go to bed, their custom was to present... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - Highlands (Scotland) - 1860 - 468 pages
...cupboards in the wall, with doors to be opened and shut at pleasure, so we climbed up to our beds. They use but one sheet, open at the sides and top, but close at the feet and so doubled." Now, thanks to the position of Inverness, its connection by railway, and the Caledonian Canal with... | |
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