. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . THE HIGH LA XD R,\ : D UNKELD. 133 Other by Blair Athole more directly northward ; both routes meeting again atForres, and passing along the southern shore of the Moray Firth to is the Blair Athole line that is called distinctively the Highland Railway ;and happy are those travellers who can linger at its successive points ofinterest, and explore at leisure the wonderful regions that lie eastward andwestward, offering within a short distance scenes of alternate grandeur andloveliness, enhanced by the stern and rugged desolation
. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . THE HIGH LA XD R,\ : D UNKELD. 133 Other by Blair Athole more directly northward ; both routes meeting again atForres, and passing along the southern shore of the Moray Firth to is the Blair Athole line that is called distinctively the Highland Railway ;and happy are those travellers who can linger at its successive points ofinterest, and explore at leisure the wonderful regions that lie eastward andwestward, offering within a short distance scenes of alternate grandeur andloveliness, enhanced by the stern and rugged desolation by which, onthe eastern side especially, they are shut in. At first, however, all istranquil loveliness, as the train rapidly ascends the valley of the Tay, withmany a view of the fair river. Dunkeld is soon reached—to many travellersthe first introduction to the Highlands. The town Is at some distancefrom the station, and the best way to apprehend its beauty is to walk to the. Loch Turrit. bridge over the Tay, from which a panorama of the richest beauty is obtained,the hills, nowhere vast, but picturesque in outline, being clothed to theirsummits with thickly-planted trees. The little town with its old cathedraltower is in front of the spectator ; Birnam Hill, beyond the railway station,rises behind him. Undoubtedly at Dunkeld the two things to be done areto ascend this hill, and to walk through the Duke of Atholes is perfectly accessible, even to ordinary walkers ; the w^ood whichShakespeare has made famous is represented by some fine old trees ; the pathto the summit winds round a dense plantation of fir and birch ; above whicha grand view of the distant mountains is obtained, with Dunkeld in theforeground, guarded as it were by the wooded bluff of Craigie-Barns. The Mr. Pennant Birnam Wood has never recovered the march which its ancestors made to Dunsinane. 134 SCOTTISH PICTURES. sparkle of lakelets in the valley, and the lux
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