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ON THE HIGHLANDS* 



chanical laws, that if the depositing solvent were 

 any how agitated into waves or undulre, the de- 

 position also should exhibit in its- form the cor- 

 responding effect of such agitation ? No appear- 

 ance is more familiar, than the undulatory ar- 

 rangement Which the particles of sand assume at 

 the side of a running stream, or on the sea-shore, 

 by the mechanical action of the water, more 

 especially, where the motion is obstructed by any 

 obstacle ; presenting layers, variously bent, and 

 with every degree of inclination, from the hori- 

 zontal to the vertical position. All the irregu- 

 larities of elevation and depression, on the surface 

 of the subjacent rock must also be taken into ac- 

 count. The inflexions in question, are besides 

 on a scale extremely minute, and produce no al- 

 teration whatever, on the general direction of the 

 strata. 



It may, in passing, be remarked, that from this 

 elevation, which probably exceeds the height of 

 Ben-More by an hundred feet, the prospect, though 

 uncommonly noble and extensive, is hardly to be 

 considered as equally complete with the alpine 

 view from that mountain, formerly described. 

 It commands indeed a longer sweep of Loch-Tay, 

 and a greater range of the low country to the 

 south-east. But the Dochart Hills exclude from 

 the eye, almost the whole of the south-west 

 j Highlands, the only objects which at such a dis- 

 tance produce any picturesque effect ; and the 

 expanse along the horizon, from east to south, is 



