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322 of relations. I learnt too that Mr. Mackay had been the instructor of my husband's two brothers in their early youth. In short, all conspired to make me feel myself at home, and as easy as if we had been friends of a long standing. I left them with regret; and proceeded, by their direction, to a bridge over the Lyon, somewhat above Fortingal, and turned from the river to the left, which was soon lost to me in the tremendous mountains of the glen, which I also there quitted, to join Loch Tay; which in a mile or two opened beautifully to my view, and I soon entered the north road from Killin to Kenmore, and came down by that hanging steep piece of road already described, seen from Maxwell's Temple.

In my way to Killin, on the south-side of the loch, I went up to see the fall at the hermitage, of a burn, with rocky close banks covered with wood. The height of the fall, I was told, is 240 feet: it is a very fine fall; but, in my mind, not half so beautiful as those of Moness, though higher. The one is dressed; the other is in its lovely, enchanting, native undress: even the hand of man, in favouring the access to the head of Moness, is concealed. That to the fall, at the