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Rh it. The present church seems by no means of modern erection; the church-yard is in a very romantic situation near the river Lochy, there joining the Tay, and both entering the lake within sight. The Lochy river issues from a glen of that name; which, about Killin, is finely wooded, and through that wood, under a crag, peeps a picturesque ruin of a large castle, once inhabited by the Breadalbanes. Both the rivers Lyon and Lochy, take their source from some small lakes, and the high mountains, which tower to the north of Tyndrum, and near it, on the right of the road, from thence to Fort William. I had on a former visit to Killin seen some part of it, but Glen Lochy I had not entered. I ascended, by the Manse, a very steep hill, hanging over the winding road from Killin to the bridge over the Lochy, leading to Taymouth; and as I had heard there is a tolerable fall of the Lochy above, at no great distance, I descended the precipitate side of the mountain, very near the bridge, where I found a Highland town, and all hands busy at housing hay; which they were carrying from every quarter of that verdant, smiling district. The crops of hay seemed abundant; but this must be a backward climate, as it was then the 9th of