. The earth and its inhabitants ... ,which here, as they do farther south, extend towards the north-east, with theOrkneys and Shetland Islands lying in the prolongation of their axis. The sub- NOETHEEN SCOTLAND. 335 marine range which forms the Hebrides follows the same direction, as do also theLofoten, on the coast of Norway, and the plateau of Scandinavia. As a whole the mountains of Northern Scotland are known under the designa-tion of Grampians—thus named after a Mount Graupus, mentioned by Latin writers,but misspelt by their copyists. These mountains consist of a large number ofgroups and
. The earth and its inhabitants ... ,which here, as they do farther south, extend towards the north-east, with theOrkneys and Shetland Islands lying in the prolongation of their axis. The sub- NOETHEEN SCOTLAND. 335 marine range which forms the Hebrides follows the same direction, as do also theLofoten, on the coast of Norway, and the plateau of Scandinavia. As a whole the mountains of Northern Scotland are known under the designa-tion of Grampians—thus named after a Mount Graupus, mentioned by Latin writers,but misspelt by their copyists. These mountains consist of a large number ofgroups and chains, separated by narrow glens or valleys occupied by to the north of the estuary of the Clyde rise the Southern Grampians,whose summits, Ben Lomond (3,192 feet), Ben More (3,281 feet), and Ben Lawers(3,984 feet), are most frequently the goal of tourists, owing to their vicinity tolarge towns. Farther north rises the almost insulated mass of Ben Cruachan Fig. 163.—Bex 1 : 200,000 W of P. 7° 50. 7° DO ?56 45 5I0 5- 2 Miles. (3,670 feet), by the side of Loch Awe ; and farther awa} still, beyond Loch Leven,one of the ramifications of the Firth of Lorn, there looms in front of us thehighest summit of the British Isles, Ben Nevis (4,406 feet). Its aspect is all themore imposing as its foot is washed in two lochs, and we are enabled at a glance toembrace it in its entirety, from the sands and meadows at its foot to the snow whichgenerally caps its summit. Ben Nevis, the rock which touches the heavens,forms the western pillar of the Grampians proper, w^hich terminate to the south ofAberdeen, after having throwai off the spur of Cairngorm towards the the point of separation rises Ben Muich Dhui, or Mac Dhui (4,296 feet),the second highest mountain of Great Britain. The Grampians are the back- 836 THE BKITISH ISLES. bone of all Scotland, rrotuberanccs of g-runite rising into domes above theSilurian strata abound in them, and
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