and looks into that rich and noble valley, furrounded with lofty grey mountains, 
cloathed with dark extenfive woods ; the ruggedeft rocks towering high at intervals 
among them, and leffening into fainter tints towards the azure fpread of their more 
diftant and clouded fummits — the flocks and herds grazing in the deep hollows of 
the green paftures beneath — cottages amid trees and corn-fields, on the banks of the 
rivulets — a ruftic hunting feat, with environs, pointing it out to be the temporary 
refidence of the Duke of Gordon , the proprietor of the foreft and the glen, in the 
feafon when he comes to enjoy the pleafures of the chace; for thefe mountains 
plentifully abound both with deer and game — workmen feen bufy on the declivities, 
felling the larger trees ; with infinite labour concluding the timber to the mill, or 
guiding the planks, already cut, down the ftreams to Loch-Morlich> a charming 
fpread of water, which fills the middle of the valley, furrounded with- the moft ro- 
mantic trees, fcattered along its fandy fhores ; many fallen, or whitening in all the 
hoary greatnefs of decaying age — Thefe all combine to prefent at once to the afto- 
nifiied beholder, a moft majeftic and animating, a pidurefque and delightful fcene. 
The drawing of the view, given in the annexed plate, was taken from the opening 
of a narrow winding glen, or gully, occafioned by the channel of a rivulet being 
worn deep into the hill, by many a winter torrent rufhing from the impending 
mountain. The profpect of a gravelly cliff in front, crumbling down from under 
the brufh wood, and from among variety of lofty trees, which wave over the preci- 
pice, contrafted with the groves that cloath the adjacent mountains, and enriched 
with the fpread of the rivulet leading to the Saw-mill, feemed an inviting fubjeft 
to convey fome general idea of thefe ftrange wilds. 
Over the above-mentioned deep chafin, in the declivity of the mountain, worn 
down with the floods of ages, fome immenfely large decayed trees are fallen ; and 
now withered to a fiver grey, ftripped of their bark and foliage, form a fpecies of 
bridges of moft Angular and romantic appearance. Some of thefe, in falling, have 
torn up the foil with their enormous roots, and by that means ftones and ftirubs,- 
with variety of fcattered foliage, are fufpended in the air, and, if ftudioufly imitated,' 
would have a remarkable good effeft in wild landfcape ; a flight Iketch of fome, as 
a fpecimen, is given on the left of the reprefentation in the plate. 
