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Rh rough, and dangerous, than what I was looking at. About six miles from King's House I came to the torrent, forming the head of the small water of Coe, where it falls from the mountains in a very fine cataract, into a dark, deep, narrow passage, dashing over and amongst steep rough rocks for at least a mile, till it gets to the small plain in the middle of Glen Coe, where it gently empties itself into a little lake. Just at the cataract at the south-side of the glen, under which the water dashes after its fall, are huge towers upon towers of solid rock, forming a multitude of stages to the greatest height, and all in a drizzling state; which in some degree looked like thousands of icicles, dropping from innumerable points of rocks upon every stage; and forming, from the top to the bottom, one of the most curious sights I ever beheld. In violent rains a cascade must there be formed, so grand and majestic, that I cannot conceive any thing equal to it; except a sudden frost should congeal this grand cascade when tolerably full, and in that state having the sun-shine upon it. These tower-like crags may, perhaps, have lakes in their hollows; springs without number must be every where about them, or they could not weep without ceasing. The constant dripping