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Rh looking place, called Rothamurchus, and a cluster of mountainous crags, amongst which is the frowning Cairngouram, where the finest Scotch pebbles are found.

You must pass your night at the single house of Aviemore; sleep you cannot expect, it being the worst inn (except King's House) that I met with in Scotland. All out of doors, however, is beautiful.

The new road to Dulsie bridge, 20 miles.

Nothing can be finer than the road itself, but there is little to be seen; almost the whole way being a wild heath. You had better take a feed for your horses from Aviemore, for though there is a house eight miles from Aviemore, where perhaps you may get some hay and water for them, but no corn. I breakfasted in the carriage at that small house door; but the good folks living there could furnish no part of the breakfast, or breakfast equipage, but boiling water and milk; both very good. I chose to breakfast in any manner, rather than at the dirty inn of Aviemore. As I dined in my chaise at the Brig of Dulsie, over the Findhorn river, I cannot say what sort of a house the inn is, in the inside of it; the outward appearance of it is