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ever, was sufficiently high to gild the mountains and the lovely scenes around Rothamurchus; and for many a mile my eyes were feasted by the white patched hollow sides of Cairngouram. It was impossible to breakfast at Aviemore inn; I therefore stopped at a small house, eight miles further on the new road to Dulsie bridge, and I got a comfortable meal in the chaise, having provided tea, sugar, bread and butter, tea-pot, &c. so that I wanted only boiling water and milk, which I got, extremely good, from the cottage. After breakfast I entered upon a wild moor, the road itself admirable; but for twelve miles, nothing but bare hills and blooming heath to be seen, except a small lake at some distance, called Lochindorb, with a castle in it; even this extensive wild pleased me, and gave scope to boundless reflection. The beautiful bloom of the heath, its great variety and fragrance, its novelty, and the tout ensemble of the scene, amused me the whole way till I became in a degree enchanted: when on a sudden, driven down from a space of bare poverty to the bridge of Dulsie, my senses were there lost to every thing but admiration of rocks, wood, and water tumbling furiously round, and over blocks of redish stone of immense size, some of them