312 FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



But if there corne a brighter day 

 To spoil the stranger of his prey, 

 The dell shall shine in native pride, 

 Shall bloom and spread its glories wide ; 

 The stag's majestic form shall rise 

 Where towers yon mountain to the skies ; 

 The roe-deer rest in shelt'ring wood 

 The trout dart lively through the flood 

 The hind the gentle fawn shall rear 

 The hills in loveliness appear ; 

 Each long-lost beauty bloom again 

 When moves the stranger from the glen. 



THE FOREST OF GLENARTNEY. 



THE forest of Glenartney, the property of Lord Willoughby 

 d'Eresby, is situated in a mountainous district of the same 

 name in the parish of Comrie, and county of Perth, and 

 contains about two thousand eight hundred Scots acres. 

 In olden time, and even as late as 1746, it was of very 

 considerable extent ; but since that period it has been 

 greatly reduced, and, indeed, in some measure relinquished 

 as to forest purposes. It is bounded on the north by the 

 Glengoinan burn, which flows eastwards into the glen that 

 derives its name from it ; and afterwards taking a northerly 

 course, empties itself into the river Earn. On the east it is 

 bounded by the Aultglass burn, which has its source in the 

 mountains above Glengoinan, and is tributary to the Ruchill 

 river. The Srathglen burn bounds it on the west, takes a 

 southerly direction, and empties itself into the Ruchill, 

 which forms the south boundary of the forest. The Ruchill 

 itself rises near the high mountain Benvoirlich, about three 

 miles west from the forest of Glenartney, and flows towards 

 the south under the name of the Duchoran burn, until it 

 receives many tributaries from the west and other mountain 

 streams from the south, which rise in the hills above Doune, 

 Dumblane, &c. Thus supplied, it becomes a formidable 

 river, and takes the name of Ruchill (as I understand) from 

 its rough and rocky channel. In dry weather its waters 

 are inconsiderable ; but in the stormv season it rushes with 



