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the mouth of the beautiful little bight in front of a wooded 
plain stretching in amongst the hills, whereon stands the 
mansion of the lord of the manor, " Glenfinart House," with 
. its garden and greenhouses hard by. Close upon the left 
of this spot is a beautiful forest of pines stretching from 
the lip of the sea far up the mountain. The rising cones, 
reaching away in tapering graceful folds of dark and olive 
green, is a picture for the poet's eyes to feast on. The 
beauty of the passing scenery of mountain, wood, and glen 
rivets our attention until we reach the mouth of Loch Goil, 
and we are then speedily landed at our destination. 
The wharf is close to the walls of the castle, and on 
landing we immediately set about viewing the ancient 
stronghold. At one time it must have been completely 
surrounded by the sea, or at least the landward portion 
of its walls was subject to the conditions of the ebb and 
flow of the tide. The structure never was of an imposing 
nature, but like all others of its ancient compeers, the 
quality of strength was not neglected — the walls in some 
places being immensely thick, and what must have been 
a ramparted court-yard is still seen facing the sea. The 
village is a beautiful retired spot, nestling on the brink 
of the sea at the foot of the hills. On the road fronting 
the inn, several magnificent plane trees lift on high their 
umbrageous arms ; and we observe in the grounds of a villa 
hard by, a towering monarch oak, whose sapling leaves 
must have been shed several hundreds of years ago. We 
often hear the locality cited as the scene of Campbell's 
Lord Ullin's Daughter," but we have seen it somewhere 
else disputed in favour of another loch of the same name in 
the Island of Mull, in the Western Highlands, where 
Campbell spent several years in retirement. Be that as it 
may, the locality has enough of romantic scope and beauty 
