CHAPTER VIII 



A PERTHSHIRE GLEN 



I.— THE RIVER DOCHART 



5F you take the train to Tyndrum 

 station, on the Callander and Oban 

 line, and walk back in the direction 

 from which you have come, bearing 

 away across the moor towards the 

 ^-* west, you will find yourself in a 

 ;^ ^^^" picturesque valley, where flows an 

 exquisite Highland stream containing 

 pools of great depth and crystal purity. 

 In front of you, at the head of the 

 7-__ glen, may be seen a grand mountain 

 of Alpine contour — sheeted in spring- 

 time from base to summit with huge 

 slabs of snow — known as Ben Lui. Here, amid a 

 wild primeval country, with naught but rock and 

 heather, birch and straggling fir — remnant of an 

 ancient forest — on every side, the sources of the 

 Tay are gathered. 



