description striking!—The mirrors in the room, so far from being absurd (as some Tourists say), magnify and multiply every object they reflect, and thereby increase the delight. A large bow-window, down to the floor of the room, faces the fall, and indeed hangs over part of it; so that the reeking spray dashes in with violence, if the sashes be open. The noise of the cascade is wonderful, and the view of the river above it is charming; rendered so by the great variety of small falls, wood, and projecting rocks.
I much wished to have continued my walk by the Brand side till I came to the Rumbling Brig; and such a walk would be delightful. If the Duke of Atholl should extend his walks beyond their present limits, and carry them on by the river side, up to that romantic part of it over which the Rumbling Brig is thrown, it would be a wonderful improvement: but as that is not yet the case, I went in the carriage to the brig; which should be seen, for it cannot be described with justice, nor in language to be understood.
The road from Dunkeld to Taymouth, through Aberfeldie, is on the opposite side of the river to that leading to Blair; and it is also bounded
