It has received the appellation of Dun, an epithet correfponding with that of 
Cattle or Tower, becaufe a fpecies of fortrefs had once occupied its fummit. I c 
mutt have been trdublefome and dreadful times indeed, when mankind fled to fuch 
a place of refuge for fafety : for it is almoft the toil of a day to reach near its 
top, even by the eafieft paths that are found from the high lands of Strath 
Errick. 
Dun-Gardel, when feen from the north, feems altogether infulated by the depth 
of the glens on either hand ; and the noify torrents foaming down their rugged 
channels, uniting their waves, encircle the bafe of the mountain, and fpread their 
fpray among the rocks, as if the billows of the ocean. 
TheBilhop of Londonderry (-whote curiofity and zeal in examining the Angularities 
of this country were very great) went up to the top of Dun-Gardel : this is accorrv- 
plifhed by taking a large fweep round the back of the glens to the other fide of the 
mountain, where the paths are not infurmountably fteep, yet the attending is a 
work of much time and labour. The bifliop was probably induced to this adventure 
by the hope of the extenfive profpefts which he would enjoy from its fummit ; and 
of that he was not difappointed. The Angular height of Dun-Gardel, and compa- 
ratively fmall circumference of its bafe, give opportunity of looking round with 
lefs interruption than is generally met with on more extenfive mountains. 
General Wade, who long refided here, and from whom what is now a little inn 
is ftill called the General’s Hut— and who has left a lafting memorial of his name, 
by the fo diftinguiflied exertions of the military power under him, in effecting ex- 
cellent roads through a formerly almoft impaflable part of the country- — went up 
one day, with fome of his officers, to the top of Dun-Gardel. A gentleman who 
accompanied them mentioned, that, on attending through the mitts which hung 
round the brow of the mountain, getting into the funfliine above— the mount en- 
circled with clouds under their feet, and feeing the diftant countries like a lower 
world around them— no wonder that they feemed lifted up from the earth. One 
of the officers, in particular, feemed pathetically to feel his airy and exalted Atu a ' 
tion ; for, Aghing, he faid that he was forry to go down to the vale, as he did n0 £ 
know if ever he flaould get fo near to heaven again. 
