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About a mile from Row Ardennan, on the road 

 to the summit, we meet with a rock approaching 

 to greenstone, and containing pyrites. It is dis- 

 posed in a conformable bed of great thickness, 

 which may be traced penetrating the base to a 

 considerable distance. Along the ascent, there 

 does not seem to be much variety in the rock. 

 At the summit, it is pure mica- slate, resembling 

 that of Benmore, and assuming the form of a 

 sharp serrated ridge. 



The mountain here, has a great precipice on 

 the N. E. side, with the same indented angular 

 hollow, of which so many examples occur in the 

 Highlands. It is a scene of rude and awful gran- 

 deur, in the fore-ground of what is generally 

 mentioned as the finest prospect in Scotland ; and 

 were it not a subject already exhausted in the 

 pages of travellers and describers, a new visitor, 

 who is lucky enough to reach this interesting ele- 

 vation under a favourable sky, might still be 

 Jempted to indulge his feelings of admiration and 

 delight, in producing a picture of the numberless 

 beautiful and striking objects which present them- 

 selves in every direction. The position, indeed, 

 of so lofty a mountain, on the edge of the High- 

 lands, and skirted by such a magnificent sheet of 

 water, is peculiarly favourable for a commanding 

 and picturesque view both of the alpine and of 

 the low country, 



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