VIEW from the South of the SAW-MILL in 
GLEN-MORE. 
SfVlE -MORE, in one of the moft inland parts of Elginjhire, is the opening 
of a large winding valley, firetching along the banks of the Spey towards 
. a fi^ e -Grant : The high-road from Edinburgh to Invernejs pafles through it, and the 
lnn there is well furnifhed, has good accommodation, and is well fupplied with 
CVer y neceffary refrefhment for travellers. 
A little way to the fouth, within view of the inn, rifes Crag-ailichie , a rocky 
*^° u nt, famous as the rendezvous of the clan Grant, when they affembled on war- 
Ke enterprize. The name, therefore, was handed down (as is ufual in the feveral 
1 rifts of the Highland countries) as a kind of watch-word to roufe the zeal of the 
an > when the property of any of its members was attacked, or their perfons in- 
red. To ca ji out t ] ie f e paroles, when in difficulty or diftrels, was to adjure the 
Carers (if Q f the name) by all the ties of fealty and kindred, to affift and deliver j 
an 
ail d to talk lightly of thefe paroles, their ftandards of honour, was confidered as 
.dignity, to be obliterated by all the feverities that unrelenting revenge could 
lr *flift o n the offender. 
*There is a pleafant enough ride, for a day and a half, from the coafl at Gordon 
^ e to Avie-more ; for the moil of the way along the river fide, and in the courfe 
j w hich the road paffes through the openings of many of thofe fine vallies, where, 
. a former age, the merry and mufical inhabitants of thefe retired and fruitful dif- 
e n. C S ^ a ^ indulged, in their recreations, thofe lively tunes, which are yet held in 
ar ^ ee,Tl as powerful to exhilarate, and animating to infpire the fprightly dance ; and 
e ftiflinguifhed by the title of Strath-Spey Reels. 
cu ^ on ffona Avie-more to Glen-more, the Spey is to be croffed at Rothiemur- 
ar^ ^ eat °f a g°°d Highland eftate ; and a guide obtained for a conductor, as there 
e feveral miles of pathlefs woods, and of a rocky deiart, interfperfed with fwampy 
^ ° ll nds, which render the proper paths difficult to be found, but by thole who 
Ve frequently travelled through the wafte. 
0ti( f^ ter Wa ndering, for fome hours, through that rugged and dreary folitude, when 
a dvances along the brow of the hill which firft gives the opening of Glen-more, 
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