. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . leave this luxuriance and s[jlcn(l()nr behind, antl shall better perhaps beable to enter into the descri[Hion of Dr. Beattie, author of J7/c Miuslrcl andof Essays on Taste, who thus refers to the .Scottish Highlands: The I lighlands of .Scotland are a picturescjue but in general a melan-choly country. Long tracts of mountainous desert, covered with dark heath,and often obscured by misty weather ; narrow valleys, thinly inhabited, and THE HIGHLANDS. •35 bounded by precipices resounding with the fall of torrents ; a soil so rugged anda climate so
. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . leave this luxuriance and s[jlcn(l()nr behind, antl shall better perhaps beable to enter into the descri[Hion of Dr. Beattie, author of J7/c Miuslrcl andof Essays on Taste, who thus refers to the .Scottish Highlands: The I lighlands of .Scotland are a picturescjue but in general a melan-choly country. Long tracts of mountainous desert, covered with dark heath,and often obscured by misty weather ; narrow valleys, thinly inhabited, and THE HIGHLANDS. •35 bounded by precipices resounding with the fall of torrents ; a soil so rugged anda climate so dreary as in many parts to admit neither the amuscniL-nts ofpasturage nor the labours of agriculture ; the mournful dashing of waves alongthe friths and lakes that intersect the country ; the [)ortentous noises whichevery change of the wind and every increase and diminution of the waters isapt to raise in a lonely region, full of echoes, and rocks, and caverns ; thegrotesque and ghastly appearance of such a landscape hy the light of the moon.
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