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where there was a cement, the stones forcibly dashing one against another, that the melancholy sight was similar to a corner of mountain set wholly on fire, also overbearing such a loud noise of the stones break at juncture; which vociferous might reach the ears of the people living at great distant. This place perceptible to view of the beholders that passes by.
Time would fail to sum up the complexure or combination of the delicacy of Glenogle Grampian mountains; or, in other words, to illustrate the general system of the curiosity flowing from the excellencies of their existence, it would prorogue the above delineation.
A certain allegation affirms, that the Romans and their encounters arrayed battle above Edinchip, in the vicinity of Lochearn-head, where they meet in hostile manner, to rush against in conflict, went on in tumultuous rapidity, that one of the soldiers withdraw from the battle, got himself hided in a remote part. Upon his discovery there, they called of that place, built in consequence, perhaps, that the place of his accession was a narrow compass built, and any narrow circle or synonimous, which denomination sticked to that farm ever since that time, as hitherto. On
