Cori-nan - Urischia London. Published March 1, 1802, by Mi Longman & Ros, Patanofter Row Vol.1. P.109. 1 where fome, more conical than the reft, feem to a lively imagination as if placed by nature as mute fpectators of that thrilling amazement which the ftranger feels at his entrance on the confines of the lake; the east end of which is the deep and dark pool on whofe margin we now halt. Here let us paufe.--Look up to the lef; behold that gigantic precipice, wooded to the top, bending over the pool in fullen grandeur. Among these rocks, whofe gloom refts eternal on the bofom of the lake, in former times a favage band, ruthlefs, intractable, and cruel, had fixed their lurking-place, and iffued forth, naked as they were born, committing depredations on the peaceable inhabitants of thefe glens, ravishing the women, murdering thofe that refifted, fetting fire to the habitations all around, and butchering without diftinction the old and the young. Hence this precipice retains the name of Cori-nan-Urifchin, the den of the wild-men, or favages *. Such is the tradition respecting this headlong steep, whofe appearance is so striking on our first entrance to Loch-Kaitrin. Nearly oppofite to this fpot wicker huts are judiciously placed on a rock which rifes perpendicularly from the water. Here the traveller may reft, and contemplate nature in her rude and fublime afpects.. In pursuing our furvey, we have often to encounter pieces of the road that require attention and due caution in paffing along these rocky flides. Sometimes we pafs precipices, where the road has been cut out of the folid rock; and not unfrequently it approaches fo near the water's edge as to threaten danger. But, after becoming familiarized to fuch perils, we lofe every kind of fear. *It is called, for what reafon is unknown, by the author of the Statistical Account of the Parish of Callander, "The rock and den of the ghoft.” As As we proceed, the lake gradually opens on us, and difplays, in finely-flowing fweeps, its wooded fhores, and the mountainous diftance that forms a back-ground at once elegant and lofty. There often appears in the fore-ground a bold mass of almost vertical rock, whofe ledges and crevices bear trees pendant, and of moft picturefque appearance, chiefly the weeping bush, the mountain afh, oak, and other indigenous foreft-trees, whofe roots, bare, and twisted in the fantaftic direction which the fcanty foil and pointed rocks may chance to give, add much to the rich variety of the fcene. Still, as we advance, the expanfe of the water becomes more and more charming. The fhores rife into the adjoining eminences with lefs declivity, and more ample in point of meadow and verdure. The mountains to the right affume a fublime air, and the more diftant, foftened in aerial tints, are finely contrasted by fome wooded islands, which, as it were, push forward into the view, and compofe an admirable fore-ground. Here, too, the diftance is enlivened with the huts of the inhabitants of thefe wilds; for it is pleafing to reflect, that, even in the most inacceffible parts of our mountains, traces of human industry are to be difcerned. Goats climbing the fhaggy fteeps in queft of herbs of higher flavour and rarely to be met with ;-cattle roving at large for food; and fheep far in the back-ground, feen in fcattered groups, brouzing on fides of mountains, while their bleeting is heard mingling with the lowing of cattle, the melody of birds, the milk-maid's voice in fome artlefs love-fong, fome fweetly wild or tender ditty; at the fame time the woodman's ftroke, multiplied by echo among the hidden cliffs, felling the stubborn oak, or weeping birch:-all, all, in admirable combination, awaken emotions of tender delight and pleafing reverie, The |