HIGHLANDS OF PERTHSHIRE. 481 
We had now zigzagged about two-thirds of our way to Killin. 
Our way from Callander to the Braes of Balquhidder was in a 
nearly direct course north-west. Beyond this the road bends 
north-east to Lochearn Head. From this point our course up 
Glen Ogle to the summit of the Pass was north-west. When this 
was reached, our way again turned in a north-easterly direction to 
Lix, where the great road from Stirling to Fort William branches 
off to the left ; and our course was then about north-east, follow- 
ing the line of Glen Dochart, which forms a continuation of the 
vale of Loch Tay. 
On the roadside through the Pass of Glen Ogle, another acqui- 
sition was made: Alchemilla alpina was noticed here for the first 
time. On the table-land at the summit of the Pass we came 
upon a small alpine loch, of which the name has escaped us. 
Here, and in the brook which issues from the said lake and flows 
into the Dochart, welooked for alpine aquatics, but without success. 
The Pass of Glen Ogle is remarkable only for its great extent. 
It contains of course a brook or stream, one of the never-failing 
characters of a Highland pass. The vegetation and the general 
aspect of the surface are in perfect keeping with the desolation 
and sterility of the whole scene. At the Lochearn end of the 
Pass there are a few fields, and the brook is frmged with some 
green meadows and inches; but long ere the summit is reached 
brown Heath and barren rocks are almost the sole produce of 
this vast wilderness. Our road, by a very steep declivity, dis- 
cended into Glen Dochart, which we entered at Lix toll-bar, 
where the Fort William road goes up the Glen to the west, and 
the Killin road down by the river-side to Loch Tay. On the 
banks of the Dochart, a large and rapid river, the road leads the 
traveller to Killin, which is only between two and three miles 
distant from Lix. Carduus heterophyllus, a beautiful object, with 
leaves at least a foot long, and large purple blossoms, orna- 
mented the banks of this beautiful river. Galiwm boreale, Gera- 
nium sylvaticum, Petasites vulgaris, Valeriana officinalis, Geum 
rivale, and many other more common species, abounded by the 
waysides ; and our never-failing companion, the Yellow Saxifrage, 
fringed the little mossy banks, and carpeted the bottoms of all 
the rills and brooklets that trickled or trotted down from the 
heathy, hilly wastes on our right. Killin, the extent of our 
journey for this day, was reached about two o’clock. 
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