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people who refort here at this feafon to take and fell herrings, to I
the ftrangers. An unexpeited fight, at the diftance of thirteen I
miles from the fea, amidft the wildeft fcene in nature.
A little farther the loch fuddenly turns due South, and has a !
very narrow inlet to a third reach : this ftrait is fo lhallow as to be*
fordable at the ebb offpring-tides ; yet has within, the depth off
ten and feventeen fathom : the length is about a mile; the breadth!
a quarter. About, feven- years ago it was fo filled with herrings^
that had crowded in,, that the boats could not force their wayJ
and thoufands lay dead on the ebb.
The fcenery. that furrounds the whole o f this lake has an JlpnM
wildnefs and magnificence;, the hills o f an enormous height, an«
for the moft part cloathed with extenfive forefts of oak an®
birch, often to the very fummits. In many places are extenfive-
trails of open fpace,, verdant, and only, varied with a few trees!
fcattered over them: amidft the thickeft woods afpire vaft grejlj
rocks, a noble contrail! nor are the lofty headlands a lefs emf|
belliihment; for through the trees that wave on their fummit, is.
an awful fight of iky, and fpiring fummits of vaft mountains.*
On the South fide, or the country, of Knodyart, are vaft num*
bers o f pines, fcattered among the other trees,.and multitudes of;-
young ones fpringing up. A conflagration had many years agJf
deftroyed- a fine fpreft; a lofs which in a little time, it is to
hoped will be repaired. Befides this, I can add fome other pin®,
forefts to my former lift*: that near-Loch-maree-, Jiernethy, an<®
Roth-murchu; both belonging to gentlemen o f the, name of GrantM
* jd edit pp. 1H3,194, ,212,
Clen-moriij
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