MEMOIR OF DR. WALKER. 



cult to extricate ourselves. We then came to a 

 chain of small but steep hills, where the heather 

 struck us to the breast, and which were cut every- 

 where with deep glens and gullies, which we could 

 not have ascended on the opposite side, without the 

 assistance of the junipers and strong heather with 

 which they were covered. 



" We next travelled along the rocky skirts of 

 three or four extensive hills, and came to a small 

 gloomy lake at the foot of the highest mountain. 

 Upon this side, which was to the south, we found 

 the ascent impracticable, being so abrupt and full of 

 precipices, which obliged us to make a circuit east. 

 Here we had before us about fifteen hundred feet of 

 perpendicular height, and composed entirely of loose 

 rocks and stones. They lay upon the side of the 

 mountain like a great stream, and upon the least 

 motion gave way on all sides, which made our pro- 

 gress both tedious and dangerous. With great dif- 

 ficulty we made our way against these hurling ruins 

 of the mountains; and at last, after an ascent of 

 seven hours, with excessive fatigue, we gained the 

 summit. 



" It was now five o'clock in the afternoon ; the 

 day was serene, not a cloud in the firmament, and 

 the atmosphere uncommonly clear; so that the 

 view we now enjoyed of the earth and the seas 

 below, made us forget the toil of our ascent. Every 

 way we turned we had a prospect of sea and land 

 as far as the eye could reach. The sea in many 

 places running out into the sky, and in others ter- 



