And stately stept he West;
Full seventy years he now had seen,
With scarce seven years of rest.”
[12] Lockhart, in the extract just below, calls them “milk-white.” This is exactly right of the pale bluish translucent quartz, in which the agatescent veins are just traceable, and no more, out of the trap rocks; but the gneissitic hills give also exquisitely brilliant pure white and cream-coloured quartz, rolled out of their vein stones. [↑]
[13] With your pardon, Mr. Lockhart, neither ducks nor duckweed are in the least derogatory to the purity of a pool. [↑]
[14] Vol. ii., p. 358; compare ii., 70. “If it seemed possible to scramble through, he scorned to go ten yards about, and in fact preferred the ford,” etc. [↑]