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continent, in Italy, Germany, and the valleys of the Alps. In South America, 

 also, Captain Basil Hall discovered horizontal roads very similar to those under 

 notice, and which had been formed, as in the present case, by a sudden discharge 

 of the waters with which the glen was previously filled. The subject, never- 

 theless, has given rise to much ingenious argument ; and, in spite of geological 

 dogmas, the more poetical account, it is probable, will long maintain the ascen- 

 dancy. The strength of early prepossessions is hostile to scientific innovation. 

 It is hard to divest the mind of what is so pleasing to the fancy, or so flattering 

 to the national pride. No, say the advocates of the more poetical origin no ; 

 we will not listen to a theory which would degrade this haunt of our Nimrod 

 kings into the deserted bed of some primeval lake ; nor need we be surprised 

 that geologists who have " impugned the Book of Genesis, should venture a 

 new theory on the roads of Glen-roy."* 



The scenery of Lochiel, like that which borders the contiguous waters of 

 Loch-Linnhe, of which it is only a branch, is generally picturesque always 

 romantic. The hills are lofty ; here rising abruptly from the water's edge, and 

 there broken into ravines and valleys, and tracing their bleak and bold outline 

 along the horizon. At one point their base is indented by a small bay, sweeping 

 in a gentle curve under the face of the rocks ; at another, a bold promontory, 

 girdled with wood, and surmounted by a track of bright green pasture, surges 

 forward into the lake, and shuts out, like a curtain, the fine scenery beyond. 

 This passed, a fresh landscape unfolds itself, and is again surrounded by another 

 and another all different in arrangements yet all presenting similar materials, 

 and losing no charm by repetition. The accompanying engraving shows the 

 most exciting and important event that ever took place on the lake of Eil the 

 " morning-march" of the rebellion the nucleus of the insurgent army Prince 

 Charles at its head the Stuart standard unfurled, and gathering strength at every 

 step, but, after waving for a time over the heads of its followers, trampled at 

 last on the fatal heath of Culloden. Their march was like their own mountain- 

 stream, collecting its tributaries from every glen and green acclivity filling the 

 valley with the thunder of its course, and at last swallowed up in that ocean 

 which in its pride it appeared to stem. 



Donald Cameron of Lochiel, chief of the clan Cameron, inherited all the 

 martial spirit, the social and manly virtues, of his ancestors. In this district 



Instead of arguing the point, would it not be better for all parties to admit at once the geological 

 formation of these roads, and then allow that they were used by the royal hunters for the purpose described ? 

 The only objection to this compromise, is, that it would be giving Nature credit for what ought to have 

 been done by the engineers of old Fingal ! 



