fight of the water, and frequently gave a view of the Tides and tops of the vaft m ° un 
tains foaring above ; in general, thefe were covered with wood,, except on the m erC 
precipices, and where the grey rock denied vegetation, or where the heath, n °^. 
glowing with purple bloflbms, covered the furface. There was here no poffibil^y 
cultivation but flieep and fmall cattle are fed in the fored — the goats live l uXlirI 
oufly on the tender branches of the trees. The wild animals that poflefs this p lC 
turefque fcene are flags and roes, black game and grous ;■ and on the fummits wh> te 
hares and ptarmigans. 
" The road on which we travelled was itfelf a fource of entertainment — It has b^ 
made with great labour, and is perfectly hard and level, in many places refembhng 
fine and regular avenue, in others it is cut round the rocky fides of the hills wh< 
overhang the Loch — the rock on one fide forming a lofty folid wall, on the other a d e " 
precipice, in fome places bordered with trees and bufhes, from which our guides g a 
thered nuts. 
“ This day’s journey was pleafant; the day was calm, the air foft, the limpid v ' a 
ters of the lake were gliding to the bank, waving their furface with a gentle agi tat1 ^ 
The deep rocks of the hill are fhaded with birch, the hardy native of the north '• ^ 
yond the woods, they are feen towering up in horrid nakednefs. The dark heath, a ^ 
the rocks, are now and then diverfified by fmall dreams of water rufhing down 
deep. 
“ An eye, accudomed to flowery padures, and to waving harveds, is adonilh e< ^ t 
the appearance and properties of mountainous regions j but thefe conditute a g r 
part of the earth — and he that has never feen them, mud live unacquainted with 
of the face of nature, and with one of the great fcenes of human exidence.” 
It is a milder and more lively recreation, indeed, to wander through pari^ ^ 
pleafure-grounds, to admire the gayer and more luxuriant beauties of the garden, 
the rural fcene ; but dill the majedic features of the uncultivated wildernefs, an ^ 
tenfive profpefls of nature gained from the rocky brows of the lofty mountains, y'^ s 
an expanfion of fancy, and native elevation of thought, accompanied with imp^ e t 
more intereding and folemn — and leaves on the memory traces of an entertain ^ 1 
more fublime. 
