is a very commodious apartment, and might well defend the reclufe poflelTor frofl* 
both the fummer heats and winter cold, and afford him an afylum of quietude and 
repofe. 
The Cafcade, and Freeftone Cliff and Quarries, which conftitute the pi&urefqn* 
fcene, of which a reprefentation is attempted in the plate, is befl viewed from & & 
margin of the fea ; whofe waves, at times, lafh the foot of the cliff, fo that on e, 
in time of flood, can fcarcely travel round the point which opens the profpect ot 
the cafcade. A large ftream dafhes over the hollow of one of thefe circul^ 
precipices mentioned, and breaks beautifully down the perpendicular rock : it 15 
faid to be a Angularly grotefque and fliining fcene in winter, when at any time a 
keen froft fucceeds a fall of rain ; for then the enormous icicles hanging from the 
rock, and meeting the fhapelefs pillars, formed by the falling ftreams, become ^ 
unufually grand and ftriking addition to the view. 
This plate is engraved from one of a numerous fet of drawings made by Mf' 
Cordiner, on a journey round the northern mountains, and into the interior part* 
of Scotland} undertaken at the inftance of Mr. Pennant - y and the fame diftinguilhed 
zeal, to place the importance and inhabitants of North Britain in a juft point o 
view, which characterizes his tours into that country, induces him to indulge th ff 
public with plates of thefe drawings, which exhibit the pi&urefque and romant^ 
fcenes that are fo frequently met with in the charming wilds of ancient Caledonia* 
