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which has an elevation of 2,668 feet above the sea. 

 Magnitude is not always essential to grandeur, and as 

 in human, so in nature's architecture, proportion of parts 

 often strikes the mind with a sense of majesty which is 

 wanting in larger bulks. 



If we take the area of these southern Highlands, it 

 amounts to about 6,000 square miles, in which the 

 greater hills vary from 1,300 to 2,695 feet in height, 

 in the east the highest being Seenes Law 1,683 feet, 

 further west Black Hope Scaur, 2,136 feet, still further 

 west Whitecombe Edge in Berwickshire 2,695 feet, and 

 further west still, the Ehinns of Ketts 2,668 feet. In 

 the whole district, more than half the area is under 

 1,000 feet in height, by far the larger part of the 

 remainder between 1,000 and 2,000 feet; and all 

 the remainder, above 2,000 and under 2,668 feet, 

 occupies a small area of about 75 square miles. 



If we turn to the true Scottish Highlands, there we 

 find more than a dozen of mountains the heights of 

 which exceed 3,000 feet, including Ben Klibreck 3,157 

 feet, Ben Hope 3,061 feet, and Ben More 3,281 feet in 

 height, all in Sutherland. In Koss there are Ben 

 Dearig 3,551 feet, Ben Wyvis 3,720 feet, and Sleugach, 

 said to be 4,000 feet in height. In Inverness-shire, Ben 

 Attowe, also 4,000 feet high ; while south and south-east 

 of the string of lakes in the Great Glen, of which Loch 

 Ness is one, there are Ben Voirlich 3,180 feet, Ben 

 Lomond 3,192 feet, Glas Mhiul 3,501 feet, Ben Dearg 

 3,918 feet, Ben Lawers 3,984 feet, Cairn Gorm 4,090 

 feet, Ben Mac Dhui 4,296 feet, and Ben Nevis 4,406 feet 

 in height. If next we take the whole area of the Lower 

 Silurian rocks of the Highlands, between the Great 

 Glen and the south-eastern slope of the Grampian 

 Mountains, it appears that not one-third of the country 



