FLOODS ON THE SPEY. 

 BURNSIDE POOL. 



" Th' expanded waters gather on the plain, 

 They float the fields and overtop the grain : 

 Then rushing onwards with a sweepy sway, 

 Bear flocks and folds and labouring hinds away. 

 Nor safe the dwellings were ; for sapped by floods, 

 Their houses fell upon their household gods." 



DHYDKN'S Virgil. 



" Piscium et summo genus lo .-it ulmo, 

 Nota qua sedes fuerat columbis." 



HORACE. 



AT this season of the year the occurrence of u 

 flood sufficient to overflow and devastate the culti- 

 vated fields above the hanks of the Spey, is a rare 

 event, although I have witnessed sudden spates 

 after heavy falls of rain in the Highlands, during 

 which, the waters rose many feet in a few hours, 

 and lir-trees, fragments of buttresses, and debris 

 of all kinds, were swept down the stream ; the 

 round boulders and stones at the same time, as 

 they rolled along the sides of the river, sounding 



