' At one glance the eye takes in every variety of scene. Here is the ever-changing and beautiful sea, the yawning precipice, the cloud-capped mountain, there is the craggy peak, the wide - spreading somber moor, and quiet secluded vale. Here are long ridges of blue and undulating hills, whose rocky declivities are dotted with woods which for centuries have waved in the breeze. Such is, indeed, but a faint picture of the scenes in this garden of nature - scenes which, if once beheld, are impressed upon the mind for ever.'
The writer of this article is describing the scenery from the uppermost storey of the newly built Zetland Hotel, 1863.
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