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characters of a Highland pass. The vegetation and the general 

 aspect of the surface are in perfect keeping with the desolation 

 and sterility of the whole scene. At the Lochearn end of the 

 Pass there are a few fields, and the brook is fringed with some 

 green meadows and inches ; but long ere the summit is reached 

 brown Heath and barren rocks are almost the sole produce of 

 this vast wilderness. Our road, by a very steep declivity, 

 descended into Glen Dochart, which we entered at Lix toll-bar, 

 where the Fort William road goes up the Glen to the west, and 

 the Killin road down by the river-side to Loch Tay. On the 

 banks of the Dochart, a large and rapid river, the road leads the 

 traveller to Killin, which is only between two and three miles 

 distant from Lix. Carduus heterophyllus, a beautiful object, with 

 leaves at least a foot long, and large purple blossoms, orna- 

 mented the banks of this beautiful stream. Galium boreale, Ge- 

 ranium sylvaticum, Petasites vulgaris, Valeriana officinalis, Geum 

 rivale, and many other more common species, abounded by the 

 waysides ; and our never-failing companion, the Yellow Saxifrage, 

 fringed the little mossy banks, and carpeted the bottoms of all 

 the rills and brooklets that trickled or trotted down from the 

 heathy, hilly wastes on our right. Killin, the extent of our 

 journey for this day, was reached about two o'clock. 



After refreshment and rest, we went out and surveyed the pic- 

 turesque situation, and the grand surrounding scenery of Killin. 

 This place, justly celebrated by all tourists, is built on both sides 

 of the Dochart, which, at this village, has a considerable resem- 

 blance to the Dee at Llangollen in North Wales. Here the 

 river passes over a series of ledges of rock, and just under the 

 bridge there is a considerable fall and. rapid. Here the river 

 encloses the burial-place of the Lairds of Macnab, a clan once 

 celebrated about Killin, but who are all now located in Upper 

 Canada, where the representative of the family has been of late 

 years conspicuous for his loyalty and patriotism. Their ancient 

 patrimony about Killin, Kinnell, Auchmore, and Acharn, has con- 

 tributed to augment the immense possessions of the Marquis 

 of Breadalbane, who is now lord paramount round Loch Tay. 



Killin occupies the spit of land between the rivers Dochart and 

 Lochay, which bound it on the south and north, arid between 

 the lofty hill Shroineach Lochan on the west, and the two rivers, 

 which unite before entering the lake, on the east. The hill im- 



