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tain, skipping over the hillocks, diving, vanishing, and 

 re-appearing with a bound upon the moss-hags, like ti 

 stone hurled downwards in pure pastime. . Arrived in the 

 glen, he kept twisting and lurching in the darkest 

 coloured ground, and, by making a circuit, managed to 

 cross the stream out of sight of the game. Here we will 

 leave him for the present, full of the importance of his 

 embassy, and sensible that all his movements would be 

 seen and canvassed. 



Whilst the sportsmen were lying down in the heather 

 awaiting the event of Maclaren's mission, Tortoise pointed 

 out the various features and nature of the wild tract of 

 country that lay around them. 



" We are now," says he, " on Ben-y-venie, which mean 

 the middle hill, or if you delight more in its other appel- 

 lation, on Beinn-a-Wheadhounedh. That bulky round- 

 headed mountain to the right is Ben-y-chait, from which 

 we are separated by Glen Dirie. The mountain tract to 

 the left consists of Craggan-breach, Sroin-a-chro, and 

 Cairn-Marnach. And this deep glen to the east is Glen- 

 Mark. You see by the indistinctness of the objects, how 

 deep it lies beneath us ; the river that runs through it in 

 beautiful curves, as if loth to leave the solitary pass, is 

 called the Murk : listen attentively, and you will hear a 

 a faint, hollow noise coming up the glen from afar ; this is 

 the sound of its waters falling into the Tilt. Some few 

 miles away to the south, it forces its passage through a 

 gloomy channel between the mountain crags, then dives 

 through groves of birchwood ; after which it begins its 

 ceaseless toil, it rushes headlong into the Tilt, for ever 

 doomed to struggle with still more turbulent waters. 



