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340 from Tyndrum; particularly as by going that road, I must pass over the Black Mount (a district so called), and near the Devil's Staircase, to get at it. Accordingly I set forwards early in the morning towards King's House. For three or four miles there is nothing between prodigious high bare mountains, but the width of the road, and the Fillan water, which roars down its steep rocky bed, forming in its way several very beautiful falls; not a tree to be seen, but some birch and other branching wood hanging over the precipices to the torrent. The road is very rough and bad, till after the crossing of a bridge over the river Orchy. At the top of the hill from Tyndrum, I arrived at the source of another torrent, taking a different direction from the Fillan; and then I came within sight of Auch, belonging to a Mr. Campbell, one of the Glenfallach family. I was struck with its situation: from the top of the hill I looked down upon the house, built upon a very small plain of grass land, with tremendous hills on every side. The road I was pursuing towards Auch, is on a shelf of vast height above a stream, and that shelf only the width of the carriage, and torn to pieces by the torrents and shivering high, mountains on the right: also