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Rh from Loch Lydoch, to empty itself into Loch Rannoch; but this plain is so full of bogs and roughnesses, that none but Highland men can master: it is even dangerous for a shelty (a Highland poney [sic]) to go over it. From the west end of Loch Rannoch to King's House in the Black Mount, near to Glen Coe, it is only nine Scotch miles; but it was impossible for me to get to the district called the Black Mount, that way, for the reasons above mentioned; I could only look at it from the mountain top, and afterwards went eighty miles round to get thither. At the head of Loch Rannoch, or as it is generally called the west end, there is on the north side a shooting box belonging to Sir John Menzies. On the south side is a cluster of huts, called George's Town; and near it the remains of a barrack, but now a shooting box belonging to the chief of the Robertsons'. There is an inn too, but it is only fit for drovers to put up at; also a farm-house, and another cluster of huts, by the side of a very curious mountain cataract. One day I ascended the hill at the back of the farm (not a very easy scramble); but when I had attained the eminence, the distant mountains were a grand prospect, though all between them and me a dismal waste