CH. XXV. VIEW 0E COUNTRY — ROEBUCKS. 83 



below them, covered with dark heather, and not 

 yet reached by the sun's rays. 



On the other side the ground was of quite a 

 different character : immediately on leaving the 

 wood, the country for some distance had a dreary 

 cold look, being covered not with heather, but 

 with a kind of gray grass, called there deer's grass, 

 which grows only in cold swampy ground. Here 

 and there this was varied by ranges of greystone 

 and rock, and dotted with numerous lochs. In 

 the distance to the west I could see the upper 

 part of a favourite rocky corrie, the sun shining 

 brightly on its gray rocks : a little to my right 

 the fir- woods terminated, but on that side, between 

 me and the river, of which every bend and reach 

 was there in full view, were numerous little 

 hillocks with birch-trees, old and rugged, grow- 

 ing on them : here and there, too, amongst these 

 hillocks, was a great round gray rock, and the 

 whole of this rough ground was intersected with 

 bright green glades. Some three miles up the 

 river a blue line of smoke ascended perpendicu- 

 larly in the still morning, the chimney it came 

 from being concealed by a group of birch-trees. 



I looked carefully with my glass at all the nooks 

 and grassy places to see if any deer were feeding 

 about them, but could see nothing but two or three 



