THE DREAM: 
A Title given to the wild Windings of a Glen, in the AIRD, or 
STRATH-GLASS, ROSSHIRE. 
T HE mountainous fcenery, beyond Invernefs, where the towering fkirts of that 
county rife into the high lands of Rofsfhire, is extremely magnificent, pi&u- 
refque, and wild. The deep vallies and rugged glens of the weftern hills, above the 
Abbey of Beaulieu, yield many of thefe romantic fcenes, which would afford 
the choiceft fubjeQs for the pencil of fuch Artifts as delight in the wilder profpefts 
of Nature — in thofe grand combinations of precipices, woods, and torrents, which 
eonftitute the nobleft ltile of Landfcape. 
From one finking opening of the various profpeft among the rocky paths of the 
fteep banks of the river Beaulieu, Ailed the Aird, or heights from the midfl of that 
peculiarly wild diflri£l of Shath-Glas, called the Dream, the Drawing of the pre- 
fent Plate was taken. Whether it has been called the Dream from a fimilar found, 
of the early language of the country, fignifying, as is faid, its wild and rugged 
appearance ; or if it has been applied, as a vifionary term, to exprefs the romantic 
windings, and the ftrange majeftic profpefls, which open with fuch varied and un- 
common beauty; in the courfe of wandering through the intricacies of the Glen,, 
it may be equally conceived as having reference to thofe grand and unufual fea- 
tures which characterize the place, which in many views faithfully delineated, would 
rather appear the fruits of a lively and daring imagination, than any Landfcapes 
really exifting in Nature. 
Juft at the entrance of the road into the Wild, that is, more properly termed 
the Dream, an intricate footpath leads afide along the margins of a rivulet, pene- 
trating into the fliades of a deep and rugged glen. This glen at length feems ter- 
minated by an inclofure of bold precipices, over which the rivulet plays down in 
feveral ftreams, which, interrupted and fcattered by the broken irregularities of the 
rock, forms a charming cafcade. This piCturefque and beautiful fall of water, in 
fo retired a fituation, is often paffed by without obfervation, even by thofe who 
come purpofely to fee the Dream ; and therefore feemed the more to deferve to-be 
thus particularized ; that fhould any travellers, induced by tafte for the uncommon 
of Landfcape, go to fee the beauties of the Dream, they may not omit to feek their 
way into that folitude, whofe mufical fcenery is rendered more interefting, by the 
inceffant murmurs of that fine cafcade. 
There is a confiderable expanfe of beautiful open country near to Beaufort 
Castle, and through that, one approaches by the moft inviting paths to the 
Dream ; 
