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matter, they were impressed with parallel lines ofindentation, which could be traced round every littlecreek and promontory, exactly as the LochaberRoads. It was a beautiful miniature of the wholephenomena described in this chapter. At one place,where the banks were low and shallow, at the en-trance of a rill called the Kirk Burn, there was aperfect example of the ordinary Highland delta, along slope of gravel, sand, and some clay, cut downlongitudinally by the burn, and presenting a suc-cession of levels in the cut, according as the pondhad subsided. The whole scene was most instruc-tive ; on one hand the lines which the simple High-landers a few years ago believed to be the huntingpaths of mythic heroes, on the other the wateraccumulations which science, within the last fewyears, set down as the work of glaciers. How clearand direct is the discourse of Nature, when the truekey to the cipher in which she writes has once beendiscovered!

LOCH TULLA.

118. In the passage to the Highlands by the wes-tern military road, the savage alpine character of thescenery is somewhat redeemed at one place by a lakeof considerable extent lying in the bosom of the hills,having the inn of Inverouran on the one side, andthe hunting-lodge of the Marquis of Breadalbane onthe other. From the water on the north rises the