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Rh the zig-zag, Mr. Baillie went up it: nevertheless his kind consideration induced him to write to his friend, the Governor of Fort Augustus, to desire him, if needful, to send some of his invalids up the hill with me. My postillion had been over the pass in May: he said, though the road was bad and rough, he could drive me over it with safety; and if I could get a pair of horses to put to those I had to help to draw us up the hill, it would be of far more use than the assistance of all the invalids in the fort. I followed his advice. The smith carefully examined the carriage, put all right that was wrong, and the morning looking tolerable, at eight o'clock I took leave of my good friends in the fort, and drove to the inn, where they added two plough horses, harnessed with ropes, to mine. The road over Corryarraick, quits the Fort William road about a mile and half from the inn; and immediately begins to wind amongst, and up the district of mountains to the south-east of Fort Augustus. Not a foot of level ground was to be seen for nine long miles; nothing but ups and downs till I reached the summit of Corryarraick. My head was continually out of the chaise window, gazing at the scene I was leaving below; a scene not to be