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fish; and Kilchurn Bay, near Dalmally, at the head 

 of the lake, perhaps affords as good pike-fishing as 

 is to be found in the United Kingdom. 



I wonder have any of my readers ever visited 

 Dalmally ? If not, let them shape their course 

 thither the first opportunity that a dull season 

 or a long vacation offers. There is no scenery 

 in Scotland, or, to my thinking, out of it, that 

 surpasses there is very little that approaches 

 that of the Western Highlands. Its beauty 

 is only equalled by its variety ; moss, moor, and 

 mountain alternate with rich r pastures and fer- 

 tile corn-fields ; the streams and rivers tumble 

 down the most precipitous courses, presenting a 

 succession of broken water and cascades endless 

 in their variety, and falling at last into lakes 

 stretching to an extent correspondent with the 

 grandeur of the scenery, and studded plentifully 

 with wooded islands. Loch Awe is twenty-four 

 miles in length. Ben Cruachan, the monarch of the 

 mountains which reflect themselves in her bright 

 waters, rises well nigh four thousand feet, and 

 some of the mountains that are his companions 

 are of little inferior height. 



At Dalmally, nestled among woods and rocks, 

 stands one of the most comfortable, unpretending 

 hotels to be met with in the North country, and I 



