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PART OF SCOTLAND.
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CHAPTER IX.
Road from Inverness to General's Hut—Fall of Fyres—Strath Errick—View of Fort Augustus—Opening between Fort Augustus and Fort William—Loch Oich—Invergary—Loch Lochy—Letter Findlay Inn—Prince Charles Stuart, 1746—Low Bridge—High Bridge—Fort William—Mary's Burg, or Gordon's Burg—Loch Eil—Ben Nivis—Bottle of Whisky.
Unfortunately the day on which I took my leave of Dochfour became cloudy and unpromising; but having ordered my carriage to go from Inverness by the south road to meet me at the Bona ferry, where the river Ness issues from the lake, I was obliged to set out. Before I joined the great road it began to rain, and a thick mist soon covered the tops of the mountains; though every now and then it was sufficiently fair to give me an idea of the grand scene before me; a view of which I had taken a few days before from the other side of the lake. The road on the south of the lake is a military road, made under the di-
