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flashing foam in a rocky glade of the dell ; straths or 

 savannas, like great prairie gardens, threaded by mean- 

 dering rivers and studded with wheat in sheaves, shocks 

 and ricks, seen over long reaches of unreapt harvests ; 

 villages, hamlets, white cottages nestling in the niches 

 and green gorges of the mountains, and all these 

 sceneries set in romantic histories dating back to the 

 Danes and their doings in Scotland, make up a prevista 

 for the eye and a revista for the mind that keep both in 

 exhilarating occupation every rod of the distance from 

 Kinross to Perth. 



The road via Grlenfarg would be a luxury of the 

 first enjoyment to any tourist with an eye to the wild, 

 romantic and picturesque. Debouching from this long, 

 winding, tree-arched dell, you come out upon Strathearn, 

 or the bottom-land of the river Earn, which joins the 

 Tay a few miles below. The term strath is peculiarly 

 a Scottish designation which many American readers 

 may not have fully comprehended, although it is so 

 blended with the history and romance of this country. 

 It is not a valley proper as we use that term, as the 

 Valley of the Mississippi or the Valley of the Connecti- 

 cut. If the word were admissible, it might be called 

 most descriptively the land-bay of a river, at a certain 

 distance between its source and mouth, such for 

 instance as the Grerman Flats on the Mohawk or the 



