. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . Scene in the Grampians : Stormy. point where th(; infant stream leaps from a ledge a ihousantl feel high, andbegins its swift journey to the sea. We couKl not pmietrate to this ledge,high up among the secrets of the Cairngorm mountains ; although those whohave followed the path between the stu|jendous heights of Ben INluich Dhuit(j the right and Cairn lOnl to the left, irossing the summit of the glen bythe Iass of Larig, and (Icsccmliiig ihrough the Kolliicnun-chus forest to THE GRAMPIANS. 185. Aviemorc, declare thatthere is nothing so finein al
. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . Scene in the Grampians : Stormy. point where th(; infant stream leaps from a ledge a ihousantl feel high, andbegins its swift journey to the sea. We couKl not pmietrate to this ledge,high up among the secrets of the Cairngorm mountains ; although those whohave followed the path between the stu|jendous heights of Ben INluich Dhuit(j the right and Cairn lOnl to the left, irossing the summit of the glen bythe Iass of Larig, and (Icsccmliiig ihrough the Kolliicnun-chus forest to THE GRAMPIANS. 185. Aviemorc, declare thatthere is nothing so finein all Scotland. It was{Kjssible only to takethe compara-tively easy roadwhich leads up-wards to thehead of Glen Tilt, commanding after the first mile or two a magnificent view across thevalley of the highest mountains in the Grampian range; Ben Muich Dhui,the loftiest of all, being grandly conspicuous. Some pretty falls are passedat the Linn of Corriemulzie, and at six miles distance the Linn of Dee is 186 SCOTTISH PICTURES. reached, where a handsome bridge of white Aberdeen granite, opened bythe Queen in September 1S57, spans the river. The Linn itself is a narrowfissure between slaty rocks, through which the river chafes and tumbles ;and at the time of our visit, the melting snows having swollen the torrentalmost to the projecting edges of the rocks, the force of the river wastremendous. Three miles beyond this the river-side is left, and the climbto the water-shed fairly commences. But to attempt this the snow forbade,and there was not
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