6oo SHORT TOUR OF SCOTLANP 



50 feet above the lake, now fi 



which it hath a commandir 



on the land fuic cmendou Im- 



. ding cliffs, and frequcnth detach 1 



, prodiu r-e of t< 



I unaccuilomcd to fuch lights. i i$ 



generally fprinkled with young wood of fh, 



birch, and hazel, which is cut down eve 

 years lor the bark, and charcoal. Many of th 

 trees grow out of the crevices of the rocks, and I 

 have certainly perceived fome growing from the 

 large Hones that lie upon the face of the precipices. 

 '.-> whole fc< y enlivened in 



r.ther, by a fuccefTion of torrents pouring furioufly 

 from the fummits, and frequently exhibiting beau- 

 tiful cafcades. 



The village of Tarbat, which terminates this 

 agreeable ftage, is the centrical pafs between Invvrary 

 and Campbcltown, being 37 miles from each. The 

 little bay at this place is much encumbered with rocks 

 at the entrance, bur within, a number of fhips may 

 He 1 ecu re from all winds. An ifthmus of one mile 

 in length 1 the bay from Weft Loch Tarbat. 



IT- 5 a narrow peninfula, from 5 t 



miles in width, and nearly 40 in length, called Can- 

 tire, ftretchcs in a fouthern direction, till it is ahnoft 

 <jntac~t with Ireland. 



Mere the road takes a weftern direction, from the 

 banks of Lochfine to the weft fide of rhe peninf'- 

 wafhed by the Atlantic, and in lo- 



in the great fwell of that immenfe ocean by the 

 } lebridc iflands, fome of which, as Jura, Hay, Giga, 

 <ir in full view. 



Jura lies north- weft from the road; its length is 

 20 miles, feemingly one continued mountain, rifing 

 in .eiaht of near 3000 feet. On 



the weft is lla\ ated from Jura by a narrow 



but n , called the found of Hay. 



The appearance of this ifiand is the rcvcrf 



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