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the volume of water is wanting. It exhausts all the 

 powers of expression to do justice to the scene. 

 Amidst a number of cultivated patches of land, 

 encircled by the graceful sinuosities of the river, 

 arises a conical and detached mountain. If you 

 ascend it, you have to make your way through con- 

 siderable quantities of firs and brushwood, strikingly 

 contrasted, in many spots, with the huge blocks of 

 barren rocks which lie interspersed among them ; 

 but when the summit is gained, a most delightful 

 view bursts upon the eye, commanding the whole 

 valley and cultivated grounds beneath. To see the 

 first or last rays of a splendid sun gild the lovely 

 picture, is a scene never to be forgotten. Casting a 

 glance over the opposite mountains, we see them 

 ruggedly broken in abrupt rocks ; and the imagina- 

 tion involuntarily moulds them into forms of towers, 

 steeples, cottages, and the like. 



The river Awe is a first-rate piece of water for 

 salmon and trout fishing, but its extent does not 

 exceed five miles at the utmost. "When there is a 

 good stiff breeze on the still parts of it, very large 

 fish can readily be taken. At the eastern extremity 

 of the loch, there is likewise the Orchy, which is its 

 chief feeder. It has its source in a sheet of water 

 about fifteen miles from its mouth. It is ;;n excel- 

 lent trout and salmon stream, and the country along 

 its banks is magnificently wild and impressive. 

 There are several other short runs of 'v. : <t".', and 

 burns, flowing into the loch, in all of which ^'iere is 

 abundance of fish, though of a snr j than 



