A CAT AE ACT. 261 



Glen Coul and Glen Dim. We ascended the former, 

 which at its upper end is called Loch Beg. The scenery 

 is savage, — hard, sterile, rocky mountains all around, with 

 deep valleys between filled wp by the waters of a some- 

 what sullen sea. We landed at the far-inland head of 

 Loch Beg. and after walking about a mile among craggy 

 mounds, peat hags, mosses, and monstrous stones lying 

 in most admired disorder here and there, we came to a 

 greener flat, a kind of 'blind tarn/ encompassed on all 

 sides by barren mountains. But from a great, gray, 

 broken, precipitous front of one of these, without either 

 bank or birch-tree, but sheer over the mountain side, there 

 rolls a fine far-sounding cataract, which breaks among 

 projecting ledges into a thousand silvery streams. It is 

 one of the loftiest falls I ever saw, and gives a grand 

 finish to that rock-surrounded vale. By the by, while 

 sitting on a stone and pretending to be one, while ashore 

 this morning, a fine golden eagle flew over my head. He 

 never saw me, but soon perceiving Mr Primrose and Cap- 

 tain Jackson somewhat in advance, he soared suddenly 

 upwards, took two or three grand wheels just over the 

 cataract, and then disappeared. 



" I have already mentioned that the Lucifer is a much 

 finer and more commodious vessel than the Dasher. She 

 has fifty-three hands on board, besides the commander and 

 his officers, surgeon, &c. The only thing I miss here, 



