dreary glens of the morning ride, and the foft fcenes of the evening, , iflands worthy the 
retreat of Annida , and which Rinaldo himfclf would have quitted with a figh.” 
“ Once more we come within fight of the charming Loch Lomond. > 
Approach its fliores, go through the narrow pafs of Bualmacha, where the Grampian 
hills finifli in the lake. Many ot the tiles run in a line with, and feem to have b en a 
continuation of them ; appearing like fo many fragments rent from them by fome vio- 
lent convullion. Arrive in a beautiful bay ; the br<es of the hills on the right are lofty : 
fome filled with fmail pebbles ; others have «. ferruginous look. The iflands are moun- 
tanous and exhibit variety of charms. Inch-Calloch, or the Jfle of Nuns, has upon it the 
remains of a church, is finely wooded, and is taid to have been the feat of the fair Re- 
clufes. Inch-Murrin, or the Ifle of St. Murrinus, is two miles long, is a deer park, and 
has upon it the ruins of a houl once belonging to the family of Lenox. 
Various other iflands grace ibis magnificent piece of water : Inch-Lonaig of great ex- 
tent is blackened with the deep green of yews. A ruined caftle upon Inch- Galbraith 
is inhabited by the Oflprey ; and feverai little low and naked ifles ferve to di verbify the 
feene. From- this fpot the boundaries of the water are magnificent and diftinQ ; the 
wooded fide of the weilern ; and the foaring head of Ren Lomond on the eaftern, form 
a view that is almoit unequaled. 
The top of this great mountain is compofed of a micaceous flate, mixed with quartz. 
The Jibbaldka procumbtns , a plant unknown in England, grows upon the upper part. Ptar- 
migans inhabit its fummit ; and roes the woods near its bafe; the molt fouthern refort of 
thefe animals in our ifland. 
The height in Ben Lomond from the furface of the lake, is three thoufand, two hun- 
dred and forty feet ; the profpebt from the fummit, of vaft extent ; the whole expanfe 
of Loch Lomond with its wooded ifles, appears jult beneath. 
