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Rh the road from Port Sonochan joins the Dalmally road, you will cross a bridge over a furious water (if a rainy day), and soon lose sight of Loch Awe, and enter a wild tract of ground, till you come within the boundaries of Inveraray. If you look to the left as you go up the hills, about three miles above the bridge, and it be a hard rain, which is generally the case in those regions, you will see and hear nothing but tumbling waters, and loud roaring mountain torrents, from every part; but particularly look for a very fine foaming fall of a branch of the water you crossed below; it is at a considerable distance from the road to the left; but, probably, in a dry day, it may be neither seen nor heard. Very soon after you quit the head of that water running to Loch Awe, you will join (near its source) the river Aray, which rolls by on the left: you will then descend stupendous mountains, and wind round their bases.

About two miles before you arrive at Inveraray, in a very narrow woody part of the road, look for a fall of the Aray, over which is a wooden bridge. Should it be raining, and the river in any sort of flood, that fall will be magnificent; at all times it must be beautiful: its noise will be