482 BOTANICAL TOUR IN THE 
After refreshment and rest we went out and surveyed the pic- 
turesque situation, and the grand surrounding scenery of Killin. 
This place, justly celebrated by all tourists, is built on both sides 
of the Dochart, which, at this village, has a considerable resem- 
blance to the Dee at Llangollen, in North Wales. Here the 
river passes over a series of ledges of rock, and just under the 
bridge there is a considerable fall and rapid. Here the river 
encloses the burial-place of the Lairds of Macnab, a clan once 
celebrated about Killin, but who are all now located in Upper 
Canada, where the representative of the family has been of late 
years conspicuous for his loyalty and patriotism. Their ancient 
patrimony about Killin, Kinnell, Auchmore, and Acharn, has con- 
tributed to augment the immense possessions of the Marquis of 
Breadalbane, who is now lord paramount round Loch Tay. - 
Killin occupies the spit of land between the rivers Dochart and 
Lochay, which bound it on the south and north, and between 
the lofty hill Shroineach Lochan on the west, and the two rivers, 
which unite before entering the lake, on the east. The hill im- 
mediately above the village on the west is clothed with a dense 
wood, which reaches nearly to its summit on the eastern side ; — 
and the woods of Finlarig and Auchmore clothe the bases of the 
hills which skirt Loch Tay on both sides of this its upper end. 
The grand chain of the mountains of which Ben Lawers 1s facile 
princeps, the most emiment, bounds the left or north-eastern 
bank of Loch Tay; the mountain-range on the opposite or south- 
eastern side is represented by Ben Chonzie. The distance from 
the bridge of Dochart on the south to the bridge of Lochay on 
the north is about a mile; and this is the extent of the village, 
which is rather open, for in this space there are several places 
where there are no houses. 
On a meadowy margin of the river Dochart, before it receives 
the Lochay, Plantago maritima was observed in considerable 
quantity, also Polygonum viviparum, the latter very luxuriant. On 
the mountains this plant is plentiful, but generally very small, 
seldom exceeding a few inches in height; here it was between 
one and two feet high, and leafy in proportion, with a very long 
spike. By the side of the stream Geranium pratense was also 
observed for the first time. This fine plant we subsequently 
found in abundance in Glen Lochay. : 
Our first expedition from Killin was up the left side of the 

