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BEAUTIES OF SCOTLAND.
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Augustus, without changing your clothes. The spray of the fall itself, if full, will, when you are at the Green Bank, make you wet through in five minutes. You will quit Lochness, when you leave the General's Hut, and will drive through a very uncommon district of mountains, jumbled together in a wonderful manner; it is called Strath, or Stra-Errick, which lies towards the Murray Firth, to the north-east, and towards Fort Augustus to the south-west. In this Strath you will pass near more than one small lake, and about four miles short of Fort Augustus you will come to Loch Andurive; when you will descend a long and exceeding steep hill, hanging over the rapid stream that comes from the lake, which joins, at the bottom of the hill, the River Doe, flowing out of Glen Doe. The small River Doe, in wet weather, runs furiously into Lochness, which you will, at the crossing of the Doe, be not far from. When you get to the top of the hill on the south side of the Doe, you will soon come in sight of Fort Augustus; the most august view I ever saw; therefore, on no account (if possible to be avoided) arrive at that spot in the dusk, which is likely to be the case, unless travellers set out very