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Rh horses: they strayed, but not many yards before they were bogged, almost over their backs, and it was with very great difficulty they could be extricated. Indeed, I believe it hurt them very much, for they soon after became extremely thin and weak. It was impossible to be more wet and dirty than I was; I therefore returned through the pass on foot, picking up odd looking stones, washed from the mountains, till I came to Loch-a-chravy. I should have been saved an alarm had I continued on foot, and repassed the river Finglass by the turf bridge.—In going into the river, in order to avoid the crumbling bank, the carriage took a somewhat greater sweep, and thereby got into a deeper part of the water, and I believe off the ford; and, to mend the matter, the wheel mounted on an unseen piece of slippery rock, which was within a trifle of tipping me over. But happily the wheel slipped off the stone, and the carriage recovered its equipoise, without further harm than making our hearts jump, and a loud oh! from me. This might have proved a fatal circumstance, which roused me, for a moment, from my enthusiastic reverie at quitting the Field of Devotion.

It soon after began to rain, and all the scenes