they were made, when they were erect-red,
&c.
Glen Cro is a very deep ravine, furround*
ed with vaft mountains extremely rugged.
The morning was exceedingly rainy with a
violent high wind j a rivulet runs thrugh
the Glen, which in wet weather, mull be
confiderably increafed from its rapid fall,
Immenfe cafcades are formed in heavy rains,
precipitating .large pieces of rock to the
bottom, which lie in nil directions.
The Glen is fo much on the afcent,
that there is not an acre of even ground
in the diftance of feveral miles. At the,
top is placed a ftone, on which is en-r
graved, “ reft and be th an k fu lc e rtain ly
thankful for a good road, but the afcent
is not fo great to men accuftomed to mountainous
countries, as to be fo much fin-
gularized. The rocks are chiefly a micaceous
ceous fhiftus, frequently containing large
veins of quartz.
Onward I proceeded this unfavourable
morning over a variety of mountains and
glens ; whofe beauty was in moft parts hid
by the inclemency of the weather, until
I arrived at Carndow, on the banks of
Loch Fine, a delightful fituation; I dried
my clothes, breakfafted, and* received every
comfort a good inn could afford a wet traveller.
Being refrelhed, I ftarted at 11 o’clock for
Inverary, diftant about 12 miles, the weather
ftill unfavourable. In mountainous countries,
when it begins to rain, it frequently
continues a long time; but in walking a few
miles the atmofphere is commonly lefs agitated.
-If the traveller flops every day, he meets
with bad weather, it will be long ere he ac-
complifhes his journey in this country.
Walking by the head of Loch Fine, I
picked