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Rh deplorable state was that man in! I suppose he might get to one of the huts in Glen Croe. To walk to Cairndow was impossible, loaded with the saddle; and in such a storm of rain, and wind, and darkness, into the bargain.

The morning I left Aroquhar was very tolerable; and as much as I could see of the view down Loch Long, it was pleasant and woody. To the head of it, is a cluster of black, jagged, mountains, leading to the head of Loch Lomond, and towering over its western side; these mountains are called the Aroquhar Hills: they are extremely jagged, covered with old men's heads, and very high; but not so huge as Ben Lomond, opposite to them, on the east side of Loch Lomond. From the Aroquhar inn to Tarbet inn (better than a mile), is an opening between mountains, with all sorts of trees; so that it is like a fine grove. This road joins the one on the west side of Loch Lomond, in a right angle at the inn at Tarbet, a single house, exactly opposite to Ben Lomond. The military road, from the junction, continues by the lake's edge to its head, and then goes through Glen Fallach, and joins the Tyndrum road; but it is so out of repair,