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200 by mountains, and finely wooded. As I passed them on the opposite bank of Tay, I admired the situation of Dalguise and Kinnaird; the latter built at the base of tremendous shivering crags, under which the road to Aberfeldie runs, to the great dismay of timorous travellers who are exposed to their threatening frown.

The view at the junction of the Tumel river with the Tay is very fine; in short, the whole of the drive, from Dunkeld to Blair Atholl, is beyond description; and it may be termed one of the grandest, as well as the most beautiful of all the passes through the Grampion mountains. In some places of this delightful drive the opening is very narrow, particularly north of the Moulin Hows. The Tumel river is far more violent than the Tay, which smoothly glides the chief part of its long course. The Tumel begins to roar very soon after its egress from Loch Rannoch, falling finely and furiously between the neighbouring crags of Schihallion, and then running towards Glen Tumel, and a lake of that name; it afterwards pursues its course, and again falls at Fascalie: these two falls of Tumel are not so high as many others in Scotland; but the body