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168 name-sake, close by a burn side, between two hills; from thence to Monzie; and soon after entered the high road from Crieff to Amulrie. The view from that road going up the hill over Ochtertyre to the mountains, about Loch Earn, is worth going several miles to see. After that view, there was little but distant hills and heath to be seen, till I came to the entrance into Glen Almond. The deep channel of the river I saw winding away to the east, towards Perth; and before me a zig-zag road, creeping down the sides of tremendous hills, leading to a deep narrow glen, so hemmed in by immense mountains, that at first sight a stranger sees no way to escape out of it. The entrance into Glen Almond from Crieff has something uncommonly striking in it;—prodigious craggy mountains rising to the sky, bending their rough heads to each other over the Glen through which the water rolls, in a stony bed, murmuring as it flows. In some parts, the craggy precipices sweep to the edge of the river; in others, small patches of velvet-looking verdure smile at the crags, careless of their frowns, and heedless too of the deep murmurs of the limpid stream which gave them birth. I entered this silent solemn pass (where no trace of human