Keswick has Skiddaw almost entirely to itself, and on the matter of routes it will be enough to say that by the back of Latrigg and the gingerbeer Shanties is the easiest way, and by Millbeck and Carlside is the shortest and quickest, being made up of two miles of good road and of two of steep fell as against five miles of easy hillside.
"Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England"
W. P. Haskett Smith
While the colony had nothing better than log cabins or cloth Shanties, "there was no destitution," though there might be no luxury.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Few of the men who entered the Shanties could say that they had had much to do with Cameron and his son, except John Ross and the Morrison boys, who occasionally dropped into McNab's.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard