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extensive view of the green Lowthers, which spread around 

 them in every direction " like round-backed, lazy billows in 

 the after-swell of a storm, as if tumbling about in their 

 sleep," and of the far distant hills of other districts to the 

 north and south of them. It is with the sentiments of an 

 exiled native and of a poet that " Rob Wanlock " has 

 written of this wonderful view from above the Enterkin : — 



Oh, bonnily there on the muirlan' lieicht 



The sun looks doon, 

 And bauldly up i' the warm suulicht 



Ilk hands his croon : 

 Lowther and Steygyle, Auchenlone — 

 Daintiest hill that the licht looks on: 

 (Aft hae I spiel' d its benty side 

 Wi' freens noo sinder'd far and wide), 

 While bonnily owre baith burn and brae 

 The sklentin' shadows o' e'enin' play, 

 And syne hap a' at the close o' day ; 



Oh, surely the weird, uncanny skill 

 0' elfin wand 



Ne'er cuist mair glamour on howe and hill 

 In fairy -land ! 



Dr John Brown's description of the Enterkin has become 

 famous, but it is always worth repeating, as no prose descrip- 

 tion could be more adequate, except that he places the hills 

 on the wrong sides of the glen for one travelling down the 

 Pass. " We are now," he says, " nearing the famous 

 Enterkin Pass ; a few steps and you are on its edge, looking 

 down giddy and amazed into its sudden and immense depths. 

 We have seen many of our most remarkable glens and 

 mountain gorges — Glencroe and Glencoe ; Glen Nevis, the 

 noblest of them all; the Sma' Glen, Wordsworth's Glen 

 Almain (Glenalmond), where Ossian sleeps; the lower part of 

 Glen Lyon, and many others of all kinds of sublimity and 

 beauty ; but we know nothing more noticeable, more unlike 

 any other place, more impressive, than this short, deep, 

 narrow, and sudden glen. There is only room for its own 

 stream at its bottom, and the sides rise in one smooth and 

 all but perpendicular ascent to the height, on the left, of 1895 

 feet, Thirstane Hill, and on the right, of 1875, the exquisitely 

 moulded Stey Gail, or Steep Gable — so steep that it is no 



