The former is a very romantic fcene 5 efpecf- 

 ally in the eaftern parts. Here we find in 

 great perfection every fpecies of the wildeft, 

 and moft awful country. The beetling rock 

 aflumes no where a more tremendous form : 

 nor the pine, burfting from it's fillures, a 

 more majeftic ftation : nor does the river, 

 in any place, throw itfelf into more furious 

 contortions. This wild, and extenfive foreft 

 is much frequented by game of every kind; 

 which ufed formerly, in the fummer feafon, to 

 draw together a great refort of nobility and 

 gentry, from all parts of Scotland. Their 

 meeting had the appearance of a military 

 expedition. They wore a uniform : and in- 

 camped together in temporary huts. Their 

 days were fpent in the chace -, and their 

 evening in jollity. Such meetings were com- 

 mon in Scotland, ancj of great antiquity. A 

 hunting-party of this kind gave occafion to 

 the celebrated ballad of Chevy-chace. 



The foreft of Invercald is likewife a very 

 romantic fcene. The pines, which at this 

 day, grow in fome parts of it, are thought 

 to be fuperior to any in Europe, both in 

 fize and quality. Many of them attain the 

 height of eighty, or ninety feet, and meafure 



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