D U N -G A R D E L. 
H E ride from Invernefs to the Fall of Fyers, particularly after opening the 
*T Vlew ofLocb-Nefs, is, through furrounding fcenery, pidturefque, magnificent, 
and romantic. 
very one who can look around with a wakeful and contemplative eye, and 
tjj . t ^ at r °ad, can be in no want of objefts, evervaryingin grandeur and novelty 
Vl ew, to elevate and amufe his thoughts : fancy is enlarged and entertained by 
c °ntinual fucceffion of fome of the moil fuperb profpe&s of nature. 
ad -ry traveller of tafte and curiofity, who is led on this way to contemplate and 
t * 1C ma i ed: 5 r the c ^ffs which overhang the gulph into which the river 
s ls plunged in its fall, ought to dedicate half an hour to look round. 
JD un-Gar del in Strath-Fari-gaic. 
the way from Invernefs , within three miles of the General's Hut, which is the 
Rull reftin S-place near the Fall of Fyers, there is a bridge of two arches over a 
ded ^ trough which a rivulet runs : here the lovers of the fublime in fcenery are 
j nt ^ red t0 turn afide from the military way, and follow a narrow path that winds 
°P enin § a ff- rat h' 0° advancing by this path, deep glens difclofe their 
c orn Sj t ^ r torrents, and their gloomy groups of trees on either hand. One is foon 
tai n Plete l y deluded from the view of the loch, the country, and diftant moun- 
h e j * and the whole attention is fixed on the impending cliffs, augufl from their 
Wfi ^ and clot ff e d with dark wreaths of trees. The continual roar of the waters, 
Rrur t ^ rou §ff the receffes of thefe rocky folitudes, gives the wild murmurs of a 
lc quite fuited to the feene. 
4 etWeen thefe romantick glens, worn deep by the torrents of years, the enormous 
of * °^ an almoft perpendicular rock, or rather mountain, fronted with precipices 
th e ,^ a ! 1Ite -> among which the birch-trees and pines have found a foil, prefent 
Pile r to v l ew J towering in awful majefty, and conftiture the fteep and lofty 
Bun-Gardel. 
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