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Rh by a modern lodge, not very suitable to the rest of the place; and then through a most beautiful avenue of fine large old trees. Immediately below the house is a bridge, to break the steep ascent to it; from the bridge, the road, canopied by trees, winds round a sloping pleasure-ground to the castle, of which indeed there is but a very small part remaining. The modern habitation is two sides of a square; and the side in which are the best apartments, faces that part of Strath Earn running towards the east; from those rooms is an extensive view, but not half so fine as that to the west, over Crieff, and those beautiful hills that stop the pass, towards the lake, and the stupendous mountains around it, which give sublimity, magnificence, and beauty to the whole scene. Close by Drummond Castle is a charming piece of crag, on which Mrs. Drummond, now Lady Perth, has erected a fog, or moss-house, commanding a delightful view of the country. Beyond the fog-house crag, Top Thurloch, raises its brown, though not ill-shaped, high crest.

By Glen Almond is another grand pass through the Grampions; I therefore set out from Ochtertyre to visit that wild region; and passed by the Horsh, the retreat of a worthy gentleman, a