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mind, nothing can surpass the beauty of colouring 

 to be seen around this loch, and throughout the 

 whole of Glendochart, in the early part of the year. 

 The autumnal colouring is more gorgeous, and at 

 first sight more striking, but too hot — almost over- 

 powering ; it lacks the tender delicacy of the spring- 

 time. But how tame and poor, in comparison, these 

 places appear in the midsummer months. All that 

 beautiful snow-pattern which covered the mountains, 

 which gave them such height, such sternness, is 

 gone; the hill-sides and woods, clothed in monoto- 

 nous green, seem now to have lost much of their 

 grandeur. It is this beauty and variety of colour- 

 ing in the foreground and middle-distance that 

 makes Scotland so much more paintable than 

 Switzerland or Norway — than perhaps, indeed, for 

 pure landscape, any country. 



The river, upon issuing from these two lochs, 

 takes the name of the Dochart, and, after continu- 

 ing its course for eleven miles, flows through the 

 village of Killin. Immediately below Killin it is 

 joined by a parallel stream, the Lochay, and the 

 two of them then empty their waters into the head 

 of Loch Tay. 



The Lochay is not such an important river as 



