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314 unseen winding at the back of it. Permission is given to drive through the park, which is but a small flat, surrounded on every side but one (towards the lake), by high mountains planted to their summits; and those plantations are flourishing luxuriantly. Clumps and single trees of very fine timber grow handsomely in every part of the park. There is no view from the house, it being built upon the lowest ground about Loch Tay, and on a dead flat. To the east it has the castle, like small hills that I observed generally blocked the entrance of almost every great lake I saw. Those to Loch Tay being covered by very thick trees, the shape of castles are confounded by a general outline of a wood; but when I walked over the pleasure ground, I perceived Loch Tay has its natural castle guards, as well as Loch Catheine, Loch Earn, &c. At the western gate of the park is the almost new and neat town of Kenmore, built close on the foot of the lake. The view from Kenmore is mostly similar to that which is seen from Maxwell's Temple, in his lordship's pleasure ground. The church of Kenmore stands upon ground rather higher than the town, from which, (though not joining) a row of houses, on each side, form a broad street