Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . istical Account of ScotUind. Parish of Logic. 186 THE OCHILS. there be observed in curved beds; and Professor Nicol enumerates amon<;the minerals obtainable, analcime, mesotj-pe, stilbite, prehnite, and the metalliferous character of the range, the same writer says— Somemetallic veins are found in these rocks, particularly in the one in the Wood-hill, near Alva, £50,000 or £60,000 worth of silveris said to have been extracted, and it also contained peach-blossom colouredcobalt ore. In the hills near this, not less than f
Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . istical Account of ScotUind. Parish of Logic. 186 THE OCHILS. there be observed in curved beds; and Professor Nicol enumerates amon<;the minerals obtainable, analcime, mesotj-pe, stilbite, prehnite, and the metalliferous character of the range, the same writer says— Somemetallic veins are found in these rocks, particularly in the one in the Wood-hill, near Alva, £50,000 or £60,000 worth of silveris said to have been extracted, and it also contained peach-blossom colouredcobalt ore. In the hills near this, not less than foiirteen or fifteen veins,containing ores of silver, cobalt, lead, copper, or iron, are known. In theGloom Hill, near Castle Campbell, a vein was formerly wrought, the oresbeing lead, copper, and silver, along with heavy spar. Copper has alsobeen found at Blair Logie and Airthrey, in a dark-coloured tufa—the veinat the latter being from four to five feet -^vide, and, besides the copper, alsournishes ores of lead cobalt, and %Se -^ THK rOETH AND DAMYAT. The scenery of the Ochils is peculiar, and unlike any other in a distance they look like steep mounds running in a straight line, asuniform as if they were artificially raised and smoothened, and thus seemto be destitute of breaks and variety of scenery. But they are cut bydeep clefts, so narrow as not to be visible at a distance, and all the morestriking from that characteristic. The sides of these clefts are very steepand precipitous, and the banks, Avith precipices between, so close thatit would seem no great feat to throw a stone across from hill to hill. Inthe lowest level of these cavities there generally runs a brawling brook,struggling among great boulders which have fallen from the impendingrocks, leaping over stony shelves, or sweeping, scarcely visible, between BRIDGE OF ALLAN. 187 cliffs which ahiiost overarch it. These glens are silent and uninhabited;indeed, they are too narrow and steep t
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