THE BOTANICAL FEATURES OF TEE SIDES OF LOCH SESS. 
tissues of the plant. Therefore plants are continnally separating what animals combine, and thus the 
balance is kept up in the atmosphere. 
A veiy important distinction exists, however, in the fact that the presumed respiration of plants 
is onlv active under the influence of hg-ht ; the light effects the separation of the oxygen within 
the plant, and then this passes off, with the persph-ation, through the breathing pores. In animals, 
where it is necessary that the respu-ation shoiild he always going on, to keep up the heat, it is made 
to depend, not »pon a periodical influence like that of the sun's hght, hut upon the affinity between 
carbon and the oxygen of the air brought into contact with it in respiration. 
I have been forced to enter in some degree into chemical questions here, as they are essentially 
concerned with all that Hght effects in plants ; this anticipation was unavoidable, and if the preceding 
remarks are not fully comprehended, they wiU be made more clear by the explanations that I shall 
have to give of the phenomena of the chemical affinity in plants. 
LOcn >'ESS, FROM THE BLACK ROCE. 
THE BOTANICAL FEATURES OF THE SIDES OF LOCH NESS. 
By GEOEGE AN'DEESOX, Esq., I.v^-ER^-ES3. 
" The Oak, the Ash, and the bonny Ivy tree, 
Ah, they flourish best in the north covmtrie." — Old Soxg. 
eF botany it has been justly said, that " the spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns ;" and although 
I cannot expect to add any inducements to its study, yet I vrill crave the indulgence of my readers 
while I offer a few observations, made several years ago, giving some faint idea of a district as richly 
decked ■^•ith Nature's bounties as any in the British Isles. 
"We have been accustomed to think of the Highlands as the land of storms, of darkness, and of 
desolation ; and when we have beheld the huge mountains rising in our way and crossing our path, 
as if forbidding approach to the retu-ed habitations within their bosoms, we can scarcely beheve that 
the rich descriptions of vegetable life, on the rocky bounds of Loch Kati'ine, so powerfully given by 
the bard of oui- times, can extend to the north of that celebrated inlet. Neither wUl our prepossessions, 
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