The GREEN-LOCH, in GLEN-MORE. 
EN-MO RE is a rugged valley, of vaft extent; embofomed deep amid 
the Carn-gorum> and other mountains. It contains a very valuable foreft be- 
longing to the Duke of Gordon. It is computed that there are thirty thoufand 
trees in it, fit for mails and yards of fhips, and are excellent timber when cut 
anto planks and deals. The wild and magnificent profpefts, afforded by the 
mountainous regions which furround the Glen, are full of that horrid grandeur 
^hich aftonifhes and over-awes ; yet there is a native power in thefe great fcenes 
to elevate and pleafe. The mind of the admirer partakes of their fublimity : 
beholding thefe enormous and lofty piles of precipices, cloathed with wood, gra- 
dually rifing to the fky — their fummits partaking of the azure of the firmament, 
and towering above the clouds — the aftonifhed fpedlator feels a kind of con- 
nexion with thefe fuperior regions he explores, and experiences a correfponding 
elevation of thought. The regions round Glen-more are full of thefe great fcenes 
of nature, which in contemplation yield the moft fublime pleafure. 
The Green-loch is at one end of Glen-more ; (in the middle of the valley there 
is a ftill larger piece of water). This Loch has derived its appellation from the 
tinge given to it by the leaves, which are continually falling into it from the 
trees on the overhanging precipices. The broad variegated mountain which 
cuts the mod diftinguifhed figure on the border of the Loch, and in the view 
here given of it, is called Crag-na-gaul. The rock in many places is moulder- 
ing down, and lweeps away the rifing trees; but clumps of vaft firs, interfperfed 
with hazel, holly, and, nea^the borders of the Loch, quaking-afh, ftill main- 
fa" 11 their ground amid the falling rocks. Nature is ever bufy, replacing what 
is loft'' by the occafional devaluation. 
Enormous fallen trees, and others decaying through age, or fhattered by the 
ftoi ms of many a winter, hanging over the Loch in all their native wildnefs, 
* nd in the cafual arrangements of Nature in her rudeft ftate, make the environs 
oi this Loch prefent the moft pi&urefque and romantic fcenes, worthy the pencil 
of a Rembrandt , a Salvator Ro/a, or a Claud Lorrain. 
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