INTRODUCTORY. 



HE wide and fertile valley known 

 as Strathearn extends from Loch 

 Earn on the west to within two 

 and a quarter miles of Newburgh 

 on the east, in all about forty 

 miles. From the Loch to Comrie, 

 a distance of about six miles, the 

 country is mountain and moorland > 

 from Comrie eastwards the valley 

 broadens out into rich pastures and fertile fields. 

 The whole Strath is heavily wooded with a 

 variety of timber, firs predominating. In the 

 winter of 1893 a storm of wind swept over the 

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