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ptarmigan were only to be found at such high alti- 

 tudes, I should never see those beautiful birds, how- 

 ever I might get on with the grouse on the lower 

 level. 



Aroused by the repeated calls of my companion, 

 a man in the prime of life, his age being forty and 

 his build herculean, who made light of the work 

 which, by-the-way, he was accustomed to I held my 

 tongue and toiled after him until, as I ascended higher 

 and higher, I found, to my astonishment, that the feel- 

 ing of fatigue was passing away, that I had gained 

 my second wind, and was able to walk the remainder 

 of the day without fatigue. It is evident that there 

 must be something marvellous in the properties of the 

 Highland atmosphere to allow of a person of my age 

 walking day after day over moor and mountain for ten 

 or eleven hours. Such, however, was the case ; and I 

 climbed Cairnwall, Glas Muol (or Miele), Ben Goulipingr 

 Cairn Yourn, and most of the other mountains which 

 travellers from Blairgowrie to Braemar see as they 

 journey from the Spital of Glen Shee down Glen Beg 

 to the watering-place at which the coaches stop, known 

 as the Queen's Well, near the Devil's Elbow, a point 

 which 110 one will be likely to forget who has ever 

 travelled that way, for certain it is that a more ugly 

 turn cannot be imagined than that which the coaches 

 have to be tooled round. Here I can give the sports- 

 man a hint, should he never have walked over the 

 Grampian Hills before, which may be useful and con- 

 duce greatly to his comfort in walking : it is to take 

 special care to provide himself with several pair?? of 

 boots, not too thick or heavy, well studded with nails,, 

 and fitting truly, and to wear them into shape before- 



