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PART OF SCOTLAND.
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CHAPTER IV.

Blair Drummond—Doune—Ben Lomond—Ben Lidi—Callender.—Trosacks, or Wonders around Loch Catheine—Brackland Brig, and Falls of the Kelty.—Pass of Lennie—Loch Lubnaig—Loch Earn Head—Eden Ample—Loch Earn—Deneira, Mr Dundas's—Dalchonzie—Aberuhill—Comrie—Lawers House—Ochtertyre.

In going out of Stirling, by the above described road towards Callender, I passed close by Blair Drummond; and after crossing the Forth, I proceeded through a well-wooded district near the banks of the Teith, and crossed that river by a handsome bridge, near the town of Doune, and its ruined castle, situated close on the east side of the river.—The whole drive from Doune to Callender, is in a pleasant fruitful valley, and the distant views from it are extremely wild and sublime. The fore-ground is the vale: the back-ground, the wonderful mountains of Ben Lomond, Ben Chochan, and Ben Lidi. Ben Chochan is in the middle, and is rather lower