flood struggling along its rugged channel, and maddened by the constant succession of rocky obstructions that oppose its furious course. At the south-eastern extremity of this strait, now easily traversed since the broad road has been cut in the hill side, but formerly dangerous to pass in the face of any hostile opposition, a road diverges to the west, along a bridge of one arch, resting on opposite rocks, thrown across the Garry, and through the romantic wood of Coilbhrochan, towards Tummel Bridge and Rannoch. The bridge, deep in the dell below the line of the road, but raised high above the lowest gulf and dark flow of the river, was built, in this picturesque situation, in 1770, soon after eighteen persons had been drowned in crossing the flood in a ferry-boat. Among the woods of Coilbhrochan may be seen the celebrated falls of the Tummel, with the cave in the rocks above, where, as before mentioned, a party of the Macgregors, after their proscription in the reign of James the Sixth, for the massacre of the Colquhouns, were surprised; and where some of them, by the cutting of a tree growing horizontally from a cleft in the rocks, to the branches of which they clung, precipitated into the abyss.

On the south-east of the pass appears another

plain, with the mansion of Fascally fronting the point, where the Tummel from the west dashes down through a long and wide range of rocks and wood, wildly yet richly mingled, to the hollow of the valley, where it joins the Garry. A lofty, greenish, but craggy hill rises behind on the east, the only one which in this quarter is destitute of wood; the other hills and dales, in the vicinity of this most romantic and charming spot, having their rude grandeur and wildness so softened and enriched with such abundance and variety of natural and planted woods, that the impression on viewing the scene is that of pure and unalloyed delight, which, in the minds of those keenly alive to these beauties of nature, will approach to ecstasy. The observation applies in a great degree to the whole stretch of the Athol valley, from the Blair to the point of junction of the Tummel and Tay, which, although less open than the fine broad valley of Strath Tay, in the tract between Logierait and the Ballach, is perhaps more remarkable for varied and picturesque scenery. The highest sources of the Tummel are to be found among the mountains around Loch Lyddoch, observed, as already mentioned, on the general ridge from the base of the black mountain in Glenurchay, from

which lake the collected streams fall into Loch Rannoch, extending for fifteen or sixteen miles along that division of Perthshire. Issuing a considerable river from the south-east extremity of Loch Rannoch, the base of the celebrated conical mountain of Schehallien, 3281 feet above the level of the sea, it rushes rapidly for several miles, passing the inn of Tummel bridge, ten miles distant from that of Dalnacardock on the Garry, to Loch Tummel. From that lake it runs furiously through Strath Tummel, and joins the Garry at Fascally in Athol. The name of Garry is then merged in that of Tummel, and the road stretches along the eastern bank of the united flood through the neat and thriving village of Pitlochrie, the hollow of Moulin, and by the inn of Moulin Arn to the point of the Logierait table-land. Among the trees which rise on the sides of the road, and adorn the whole extent of this noble valley, the favourite oak is remarkable here, as well as in the neighbouring valley of Strath Tay, from the sapling to the tree of 50 or from that to 100 years growth. The arable land on the banks of the river, on the hills-sides, and in the recesses of Moulin and Tullimet, is considerable in quantity and fertile in quality; and in the tract from Logierait to Dunkeld wheat has been

raised. But barley in these districts is generally found a much more profitable crop than wheat, from the demand for it on the spot for ordinary consumption, and for the purposes of the dis tiller, legal and illegal. From the junction of the rivers Tummel and Tay, and the valleys of Athol and Strath Tay, at Logierait, for three of four miles to Dalguise, on the south-west bank of the Tay, and the farm of Dowally on the north-east, the character of the country closely resembles the valley of Strath Tay, particularly in the wide-spreading plains or haughs on the banks of the Tay; and then the hills on the north-east being protruded to the brink of the river, the resemblance is continued on the opposite bank for two or three miles further, when the valley contracts on both sides, for about two miles, until it opens into the hollow recess and plain of Dunkeld. These recesses, it is observable, occur at short intervals during the whole stretch from the Blair to Dunkeld, some of them forming deep corries in the mountainous range which bounds the valley on the east or north-east. Among the mansionhouses in the tract of the united valleys, that of Tullimet on the north-east side, and those of Kinnaird and Dalguise on the south-west bank of the river, are distinguishable. That of Kin

naird is particularly remarkable for the romantic beauty of its situation, at the foot of a fine wooded rock hanging over the branch of the river, and the spirited improvements of its present proprietor; although considerable improvements have been also effected in the tract by the proprietors of Dalguise and Tullimet, and by some of the tenants of the Athol property.

The hollow of Dunkeld is the most southern of the recesses before-mentioned, and its wild and magnificent, rich, and picturesque scenery has been often the subject of admiring atten tion.

In approaching from the north, the traveller, after passing the narrow defile between the rocks of Craigbarns on the left, and Craigbinnen, on the right, impending over the mighty flood of the rapid Tay, sees before him an open irregularly circular space, formed by the receding of the hilly ranges, which about two miles to the south are again advanced towards the river, the north-eastern rangé being protruded to the very brink, while on the opposite side, the more contracted plain is continued for about two miles further to the point, where the masses of Newtyle and Birnam almost meet across the river, and close the