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opening, between green mountains and crags, rising almost perpendicularly from the margin of it. The observer is in the midst of the Lin, at least fifty yards in breadth, surrounded by its flat, and very irregular bed of rocks, partially covered with weeping trees, and branching underwood, with loud white reeking cascades and torrents, dashing in every direction; altogether forming a picture, not to be imagined, unseen. To the east, in front, is the abovementioned island; to which is a communication from the rocks forming the piles on which the bridges rest, and this communication is a narrow slip of rock, covered with grass: the entrance to the island is closed by a gate, kept fastened by the owner of it. Round the rocky base of this island the Tay dashes furiously, both on the north and south side of it, until it is again united at the end of the island. There are, besides the row abovementioned, clusters of houses on the south and north shore, with a road before each, leading to Taymouth. The opening from the bridges to the lake, is concealed from the eye by the church, the inn, the winding towering mountains on the sides, and the thick wood at the bases, filling the