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58 felt perfectly easy; though sometimes, on the one hand, I beheld a deep lake below, and on the other, stupendous rocks, out of which the road, only the width of the carriage, is blown; yet still I was, and even thought myself safe, with James Allen, and his steady black horses.

Hay, in the summer of 1796, was very dear, consequently Mr. Millar was obliged to charge higher, than in former seasons, for the horses. I gave him twenty shillings a-day, and had nothing more to pay for them or the driver, except the daily present of half-a-crown to Allen.

If you have no friends at Perth, I recommend to you the Salutation inn for your head-quarters; for though it be not reckoned the first inn, yet you will find your account in the civility of Mr. Millar, and the superior cleanliness of his house.

From Perth you must go to the Bridge of Earn; to the old Pictish town Abernethy, and to Dupplin. In coming back from the Bridge of Earn to the Dupplin road, you will see, on the right, Moncrief Hill, and on the south side of Earn, when in the Dupplin road, you will have a view of Lord Ruthven's, Rosie, and Invermay. In returning from Dupplin, when you come within sight of the Tay, winding round Kinnoul Hill,