GREAT GLEN OF SCOTLAND. 1^1 
trace them to their termination on the east, and then west- 
ward, to the central chains, at Fort Augustus. 
Fortunately the view, from any of the heights above the 
town of Inverness, exactly embraces the whole circuit of 
these mountains, from their extremity on the NE. to that 
on the SW. ; and it is, accordingly, to the objects included 
within this panoramic view, that I now intend to restrict 
my description. From these hills we observe, on the NE. 
side of the Frith, the entrance to the Bay of Cromarty ; 
and passing the eye along towards the west, we find the 
coast skirted by a line of fine sweeping hills, whose course 
is interrupted at Kessock Ferry by part of the Beauly 
Frith. The same chain of hills is observed rising gently 
from the sea on the Inverness side of the Ferry, and, after 
forming the well-known Craig Phadric, we see them ter- 
minate, after a course of six miles, in the neighbourhood 
of Dochfour. At this point, which is at the lowest ex- 
tremity of Loch Ness, we observe a change in the height,- 
bearing, and outline of the mountains ; and, with this change, 
which I shall afterwards shew to be both of physiognomy 
and composition, we can trace the continuation of the chain 
along the edge of the Loch, all the way to Fort Augustus. 
Here our view is bounded by the line of the horizon. 
Stopping, therefore, at this point, and then directing our 
eye to the south side of the valley. We discern a third 
range of mountains, running, opposite to the one we have 
just mentioned, by Boleskine and the Fall of Foyers, to 
Dores, a village situate at the lower extremity of this side 
of the Loch, and nearly opposite to the above mentioned 
point of Dochfour. Above this village another change 
takes place, both in the dS'ection and character of the 
range ; for, instead of pursuing their former course, in a 
line with the edge of the lake, the mountains deflect con- 
siderably towards the east, and, subsiding into a smooth 
