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A DESCRIPTION OF

property of the Duke of Atholl from that of Mr. Robertson. To the left Lude looks down upon the fine woods and pass of Killycrankie; and to the south, across a narrow part of the plain, to an extensive range of the Grampions. To the north of Lude lie the high massive mountains of Benygloe, and others. The walks of Lude are lovely beyond description; particularly that by the burn to the York cascade, and on the banks of the Tilt; also to a fall of a burn running into the Tilt, above the York cascade, which I beg leave to name the Fall of Lude; it is in majesty next to the Reeky Lin; in beautiful scenery, superior to it.

The charms of Blair, and its adjacent country, are better known than most places in Scotland; notwithstanding I must particularize Glen Tilt, and Glen Bruar, in which his Grace the Duke of Atholl has lodges. The one in Glen Tilt is situated in the narrow part of the glen, close by the side of the river; to the east of it rises, almost perpendicularly, a part of Benygloe, green as far as the eye can see; on the west, stupendous stony mountains, fragments of which are strewed over the glen, with innumerable springs issuing at every ten yards. About a quarter of a mile