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Rh and you will go up the mountain nicely. I was charged eight shillings for the pair I hired, and I sent them back as soon as I got to the summit of the hill; where I advise you to put on your great coat, for it will be cold when you get out of the chaise to look over the rough ocean of mountains, as far as the eye can see. If a fair clear day, the view is wonderfully striking; if rainy, it is a scene of desolation. At any rate, whether wet or dry, you will probably like to walk down the zigzag road before you; it may indeed be safe, though rough, to be in the carriage, if the drag-chain be on the wheel, and the driver leading the horses. The water on the right, as you come down the zig-zag, joins the Spey in the valley below, as it flows smoothly out of the cluster of Badenoch Hills; through which, as I have before mentioned, is a road (though not for a carriage), to Fort William, the beginning of which you saw at High Bridge.

Garvimore inn is a lone house, with which you can have nothing to do but to bait your horses at, it being a miserable place indeed. You must lose no time at Garvimore, for you will have a very rough and slow journey, thence to Dalwhinie, of 14 miles, and be in danger of accidents if out