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south ; and from Mull on the west, to Lammer- 

 muir on the south-east. There is, indeed, no 

 point of equal elevation placed so nearly in the 

 centre of Scotland. - Remote from the lowlands, 

 and from the arms of the sea, by which our coasts 

 are so finely indented, the scene it presents is 

 without the usual appendages of perfect landscape. 

 But what it wants in beauty, is compensated by 

 grandeur ; and the absence of the river, the 

 woodland, and the fertile plain, is forgotten, a- 

 rnidst the impressions arising from the vast ex- 

 panse, in every direction, of alpine country, where 

 the prominent features of ruggedness and sterility 

 are relieved only at intervals, by the verdure of 

 the cultivated glens, with their winding-streams, 

 diminished by distance to the size of shining 

 threads. 



In particular, the course of the Dochart which 

 sweeps the base of Ben-More, and of which, from 

 this elevation, more than twenty miles may be 

 comprised in a single glance, presents a remark- 

 able coup (Toeil. To complete the effect in this 

 style of the picturesque, the immense sheets 

 of water in Loch-Lubnaig, Loch-Earn, and 

 Loch-Tay, gradually opening and retiring from 

 sight, among the deep and bending hollows 

 of the mountains, form an embellishment of the 

 whole view, more easily conceived than describ- 

 ed. 



Among the group of mountains which encircles 

 the. spectator in this panorama of the Highlands* 



