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Rh cataracts, and winding round it. The head of Loch Fine is in front of the house, with tremendous mountains all around, which, in wet weather, foam with high torrents not to be numbered.

At leaving Cairndow, the road leads up a steep hill, on the margin of the Kinglass river, and immediately enters that narrow glen. At its entrance there is some wood; but within a mile of Ardinglass, not a tree is to be seen. The river and the road occupy the middle of the glen, and nearly fill the space between the wonderful mountains on each side of it; and notwithstanding broken pieces of rocks are thickly scattered throughout, it is sufficiently covered with verdure to afford good sheep pasture. This glen is of some length, and the head of it runs towards the head of Loch Lomond; to which, however, from Glen Kinglass, there is only a foot way. The carriage road in Glen Kinglass runs through it for about three miles and a half, then leaves the river and the glen, and turns to the right up one of the most formidable as well as most gloomy passes in the Highlands, amongst such black, bare, craggy, tremendous mountains, as must shake the nerves of every timorous person, particularly if it be a rainy day. And when is there