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the lake. This was a very fortunate circumstance, as it enabled me to be rowed about the lake as much as I chose. It was a mere chance, but a lucky one for me, that a boat should then be at that end of the lake. Whilst the innocent devils were finishing their work, I walked up the road, cut out in steps on the crags, hanging over the lake to the north, to a high point, whence I saw the chief part of the Loch; which lies nearly from west to east. The view from that point to the foot of the lake, which is the east end, over the islands, and to the mountains on the south side of the lake, belonging to the Duke of Montrose, is beautiful; but that part of it may truly be called sublime, where the lake runs off by a river that conveys the water of it through the awful pass to Loch-a-chravy. I was very sorry I could not see the shape of Stuic-a-chroin, or the Peak of Rutting, on the south side of Loch Catheine; but it had on it an impenetrable cap of mist. At the south side of the Peak of Rutting is Loch Chroin, and Choir-a-chroin, the valley of Rutting. From the high point I was upon, I perceived my boatmen had finished their task, and were rowing to take me up. I therefore descended to the edge of the lake, and, with some