Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . Loch Katrine lies beneath us roUd,Like burnishd sheet of hving gokl,Witli promontory, creek, and bay,And islands that, empurpled bright,Float amid the liveher light,And mountains, that like giants stand,To sentinel enchanted on the south, huge Bcnvenue,Down on the lake in masses , knolls, and mounds, confusedly liurld,The fragments of an earlier world;A wildering forest feathcrd oerHis ruind sides and summit hoar,While on the noi th, through middle air,Ben-an heaves high his forehead bare. ELLEN S ISLE. 227 We soon reach the pebbl
Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . Loch Katrine lies beneath us roUd,Like burnishd sheet of hving gokl,Witli promontory, creek, and bay,And islands that, empurpled bright,Float amid the liveher light,And mountains, that like giants stand,To sentinel enchanted on the south, huge Bcnvenue,Down on the lake in masses , knolls, and mounds, confusedly liurld,The fragments of an earlier world;A wildering forest feathcrd oerHis ruind sides and summit hoar,While on the noi th, through middle air,Ben-an heaves high his forehead bare. ELLEN S ISLE. 227 We soon reach the pebbly beach of the bay— That round the promontory steepLed its deep line in graceful sweep,. where the fair Ellen had her first interview with the Knightof Snowdoun, and here we obtain a fuller view of the loch which,among all the other lochs in Scotland, is remarkable for thestern beauty of its scenery. Opposite is the lovely island— \\Tiere for retreat in dangerous hourSome chief had framed a rustic bower. * A favourable spot for a general panoramic view will exposeon the left the broken luxurious masses of the Trosachs ; onthe right and behind, high banks covered with hazel, oak, birch,pine, and an imderwood of feathery tropical-looking fern ;while above, if it happen to be visible from the selected spot, * A few years ago, the tasteful fancy of the nohle proprietor prompted him tocomplete the association of the spot hy buUding here a sylvan lodge adorned withtropliies of the chase; but it was accidentally burnt, falling a sacrilice to the cigarof a careless tourist. Tlie steamer sails at such times as enables passengers to meet the steamer at LochLomond. From June to th
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