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260 High Bridge, I got a more extensive view over the district both before and behind me: it is very wild, but not totally devoid of beauty. High Bridge is a great work, constructed under General Wade's direction; and is next in wonder to that going by the name of Wade's Bridge, or Tay Bridge, in Appneydow; eight miles from Taymouth, and close by the small town of Aberfeldie. The road at the top of the hill approaching to High Bridge, winds round on a shelf, hanging over the deep and close, bare, rocky (but in some parts verdant), banks of the Spean; which, as if glad of its escape through the arches of the bridge, was dashing with rapid bounds from one bed of rock to another; eager to finish the remainder of its tortured passage to the foot of Loch Lochy, deep below.

The day was declining and getting overcast, I therefore did not dare venture to stop to sketch the bridge; which I much wished to do, as a curiosity of art and nature. As I stood upon the ground higher than the bridge, it appeared to be a a [sic] region of the utmost wildness; bare craggy mountains, one above another, on every side, and a dreary rough moor before me. The Spean, though violent just above and below the bridge,