270 SPRINGS, RIVERS, CANALS, LAKES, 



On the east side, the mountains are equally high, but the tops 

 form a more even ridge parallel to the lake, except where Ben- 

 Lomond, like Saul amidst his companions, overtops the rest. The 

 upper parts were black and barren ; the lower had great mark* of 

 fertility, or at least of industry, for the yellow corn was finely con- 

 trasted with the verdure of the groves intermixed with it. 



This eastern boundary in part of the Grampian hills, which ex- 

 tend from hence through the counties of Perth, Angus, Mearns, 

 and Aberdeen. They take their name from only a single hill, the 

 Mons Grampius of Tacitus, where Galgacus waited the approach 

 of Agricola, and where the battle was fought so fatal to the brave 

 Caledonians. Antiquarians have not agreed upon the particular 

 spot; but Mr. Gordon places it near Comrie, at the upper end of 

 Strathern, at a place to tiiis day called Galgachan Moor. But to 

 return. 



The road runs sometimes through woods, at others is exposed 

 and naked ; in some, so steep as to require the support of a wall ; 

 the whole work of the soldiery : blessed exchange of instrurnen ; 

 destruction foi those tlr.it give safety to the traveller, and a polish 

 to the once inaccessible native. 



Two great headlands covered with trees separate the first scene 

 from one totally different; the last is called the Point of Firkin. 

 On passing this cape an expanse of water bursts at once on your 

 eye, varied with all the softer beauties of nature. I IP mediately 

 beneath is : flat covered with v. ood and com : beyond, tm head, 

 lands stretch far into the water, and consist of gentle risings ; many 

 have their surfaces covered with wood, others adorned with 

 loosely scattered either over a fine verdure, or the purple bloom <*t 

 the heath. Numbers of islands are dispersed over the lake of the 

 same elevated form as the little capes', and wooded in the same 

 manner; others just peep above the surface, and are tufted with 

 trees ; and numbers are so disposed as to form magnificent vistos 

 between. 



Opposite Luss, at a small distance from shore, is a mountainous 

 isle almost covered with wood ; is near half a mile long, and has a 

 most fine effect. I could not count the number of islands, but was 

 told there are twenty-eight: the largest two miles long, and stocked 

 with deer. 



The length of this charming lakje is 24 Scotch miles ; its 



