Here the few palms on the sky-line of the low hills, almost accidental features you might say, are all there is to distinguish the general aspect from some loch side at home.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
As the sun set they were rising beside us, making rings in the golden flood, and the reflected woods of the far side of the river, so I put on a loch Leven fly cast, and got a beauty right away, of about one pound; a shimmering, silvery fish, between a sea-trout and a whiting as to colour, and I missed other rises.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
"Yes, s'pose so," said Chumbley; "but as we can't have the night over the Scottish loch, isn't it as well to make the best of this?"
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn