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Rh Long, Loch Gare, with the broad mouth of the Clyde opposite Greenoch, and continue by that river to Dumbarton.

From Cairndow, a chaise containing three German gentlemen preceded mine, and in walking out of Glen Croe I overtook them on foot. Human beings, in solitary tracts, soon become acquainted, and human beings meeting by chance in Glen Croe, is an event too rare to be passed unnoticed; I therefore soon learnt, according to the Highland curiosity, who they were, whence they came, and whither going. They had been in the island of Staffa, and were returning to London by Edinburgh. The two carriages arrived at the Aroquhar inn in torrents of rain; but as the German gentlemen had permitted their servant, who was on horseback, to secure rooms for me, as well as for his masters, I soon made myself at home, notwithstanding the Germans requested to share my parlour, as other company required theirs. The next day was so very adverse for moving, or seeing through the fog which accompanied the torrents of rain, that we were all weather-bound at Aroquhar. I ventured out on the beach of the lake for a quarter of an hour, but the wind was too high to stand it