Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . rve, by name, Alt a ChaoruinnMhoir. The Gaelic is better left, like Yarrow,unvisited. There is a dictionary in thelook of things. It is your only lexicon ofsolitude, and grammar to the languagebetween sky and soil. And it seemed in-terpreted that Alt a Chaoruinn Mhoirmeant The Valley. that leads to theUnattainable Desire; else why a namesounding of aspiration, despair, and half-syllabled infirmities; a glen so shapedand significant ? The Wise Traveller climbed the twothousand feet of Cam Fuaralach, and re-ported him wet, but
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . rve, by name, Alt a ChaoruinnMhoir. The Gaelic is better left, like Yarrow,unvisited. There is a dictionary in thelook of things. It is your only lexicon ofsolitude, and grammar to the languagebetween sky and soil. And it seemed in-terpreted that Alt a Chaoruinn Mhoirmeant The Valley. that leads to theUnattainable Desire; else why a namesounding of aspiration, despair, and half-syllabled infirmities; a glen so shapedand significant ? The Wise Traveller climbed the twothousand feet of Cam Fuaralach, and re-ported him wet, but spoke well of thecams wide views and knowledge of per-spective and color; and went down toconsult Loch Clunie on other points ofculture. I left the military road andwent alone by a path that was not somuch a path as scattered, sad, uncer-tain traces, signs that others had soughtthat way before, and gone blindly orastray, and none come to their goal upAlt a Chaoruinn Mhoir; for some, itwould seem, had gone down into the bog-land, some fallen in sudden gorges stormy. Loch Duich 224 HARPERS MQOT with waterfalls, some climbed by a ruinedstone enclosure of roofless walls up theside of Garbh Leac, and there wastedtheir purposes on the mountain; the resthad vanished mysteriously from theirown footsteps. You may walk fourabreast, if you choose, on General Wadesmilitary road, but not except alone upAlt a Chaoruinn Mhoir. Space is ample east and west,But two cannot go abreast. It is solitary among fourth dimen-sions. The green surface of the glen wassmooth, gleaming with the afternoon sun-light, turned green and pale to the spiritand compulsion of the place. There wasno sound except the wide whisper, thedistilled vapor of the sound of distantstreams, hurrying in invisible slopes on either side came down withfluid sweep and perfect curve, and met atan accurate centre. There seemed nodoubt at the time of the purport of thevalley, so austere, so cut to a central line,so clean an
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