Striking and Picturesque Delineations of the Grand, Beautiful, Wonderful, and Interesting Scenery Around Loch-Earn/Sketch of the Following Descriptions
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In pursuance to insist farther on the delicacy of the various curiosity, and their divers excellencies, partly conspicuously to view in the vicinity of Edinample, of which the accuracy merits the attention of the readers; those apply to such historical, rising from the ensuing object of inquisitiveness.
The conception of my mind impresses me to enter on the existence of the Bein-vourlich by discriminate epitome description, which one celebrated of high renown for the external appearance, he pinnacle elevated of several wings, each of all side coming in pyramidically to the highest point; which altitude is an object of observation at far distant, rising to great extent above Omming high mountains, on her line; her last wing bending in northward, falcated in such elegant circle, that its delicious excites room in the manuscript of this delineation; the magnificent view displaying to the sight, from her spiring point, on splendor day, emphatically transcend the preceding narration of her similitude.
To enlarge on the rarity of the whole system of her excellency existence, it would protract the above definition to such degree as would be too tedious to the reader to exhibit at large, which is propriety of choosing the epitomic description.
A rock of no great distant northward from Beinvourlich, called in Gaelic, Craig-na-gour, which name in English, the rock of the goats; the probability of the discriminative appellation of styling the above-mentioned rock in the Gaelic denomination already mentioned, in consequence of so many voracious animals in the time of old among the high hills, and in other remote places, was destroyers of goats and sheep. The inhabitants resided at that time in the vicinity of the said rock was populous, their beast of pasture were numerous. When the goats, chased by the sanguinary pursuit of the wild animals, their vain fled was to the above rock as a place of refuge. One would be apt to conceive at northward distant, that the highest part of the foresaid rock in apparition of yielding westward in curious existence.
Stuich-achroin is a famous wild rock laying adjacent westward to Bein-vourlich, from which her easter point opposite to Bein-vourlich, a most curious rising pinnacle, or sharp elevation, to a great extent higher than the rest of her lamented, perphery, external, orbicular limits; which sharp pinnacle coming in so gradually that its several sides meets in one at the highest point, which its apparition at distant is an object of curiosity existing in wild resemblance, an amazement excavated of ground between those rocks, goes onward of rising ground, to the highest surface of its edge. That part of its edge equally distant between the two extremities of Stuich-a-chroin and Bein-vourlich, falcated or in an arcurate existence. From which arcutatious medium, is a rising edge eastwardly to the articulation of Bein-vourlich, which is in the same posture westwardly from that medium of articulation, to its juncture of Stuich-achroin, in comparatively to the form of segment circle, the elevation of Bein-vourlich, and the abovementioned horn, extended upward of Stuich-achroin, in the situation as to face each other, that the emblematically of its ferine aspect exhibition to the sight rarely appear on this rural parts of villatick, that it is a deserving object of expanding its fame in great measure, upon the consideration that the splendid view of its being might satiated the fame of the beholders highly above the concise illustration herein dictated.
The westward high rocks, on marginally line with Stuich-achroin essential existence, that their external asperity merits the promulgation herein narrated of their eximious state of being. The edge of their highest part goes downward in a slop declivity to ferine vacuate, of which vacuity Bein-Each joins its westward wings with a rising corner, advancing in height from the line of the said wing to a great attitude. This latter mountain Bein-Each is a Gaelic name, which signify in English tongue, mountain of the horses. It is likely appear that the purport of styling her on the denomination already mentioned, in consequence of some allegation that it was a remarkable for the excellencies of its pasture, or water, salutary for horses; which horses, bred there in time of old, choosed to outrun others at hardship.
The foresaid high Grampian mountains abounded with spasmodiac opening, or excavated parts, that if a loud cry made at accommodious distant, they would sounded the same in such miraculous manner, that one apt to conceive that each parts of those spasmodiac rocks imbibed the vociferation which is depressing gradually the sonorofic sound to the expiry thereof. This mountains abounded sometime of Ptarmanick, delightful birds, and some eagles, also a generical sort of hares, having their colour, sometime of the year, near as white as snow, from which colour they are changing, other time of the season, to the appearance somewhat of yellow blue; this beautiful animals frequencing the highest surface of the mountains. Wells within the limited bounds of the above mentioned mountains, particularly on the compass of Bein-Each, that their coolness would mightily refresh the weary traveller in the hottest dies; the penetrate sense of their excellencies might urge the wayfarer to drink luxuriously. Beautiful low ground annexed to the mountains above narrated, called Glenample, which anciently possessed by many tenants. Their Beasts of pasture of different kind was in great multitudes at that time. The general custom they had conducting their husbandry affairs, that their wives, in accompanying of their little ones, removed with their cattle to the shealings, which were a selected part in the hills, on which little houses build to shelter them, being a place of their abode for the period of six weeks in the summer. The founds of this small fabric exhibited to the view, as hitherto. The propriety of forming the idea of removing with their cattle to the shealings, tending to spare the pasture of the low ground during their time there; but the men continuing their habitation on the level, attending on the farms and other domestic afairs; the shealings detached from each other. The cattle was numerous, that sojourners seized with astonishment, overhearing the bleating of the sheep, and lowing of the black cattle, morning and evening, when they were feeding the young ones from their breasts.
In the ancient time, a multitude ravished people, arriving from a far distant and remote parts, exposing themselves in such measure of rapaciously, a devourer, plunderers, addictness to plunder, seized by violence; which rapacity disturbed and perplexed the country into the highest degree of inquietness and interruption of tranquillity. It is said, that attack has been made at that time by a party of the barbarous people above narrated, to prey Glenample with rapacity of all the cattle was there, which will be illustrated by the ensuing epitomè narration.
Early on the morning a party of the ferocious people already mentioned entered the westmost limit of Glenample, whose had a piper along with them to exhilarate them in their depredate design; which musician was harbouring the case of the inhabitants, on his apprehension that the barbarous crew to whom he belong was to seize their cattle with violence, and to snatch them away, that he play up a tune to alarm them of the ravenous attack approached to them. The people at that time have the use of the intellectual faculties, that the power of their ear of judging of harmony, or any tune of pipe or fiddle, so intelligent to them, as although were it be in terms of communicating to them orally. When the cruel party comprehend the design of the said tune, they daggered the piper, and throwed him in a hole; of which place its called the Cairn of Piper to this day.
It should not be omitted to give summary account of the famosity cataract at Glenbeicli, defining the excellencies of its remarkable existence. The potent stream goes down off ferine rock to wild hollow of great length downward; of which hollow, its mouth’s circle, consisting of a large extent each way, coming in gradually to narrow compass, ascending to the bottom; the easter wing of the said hollow advancing from the bottom to the top in a slope obliquely existence; its northward articulate part a high wild rock of perpendicular face; its westward side, a deep brae face, abounds with wood, by declivity rising from the bottom upward, hanging over in the most curious existence, that the phenomenon appearance of its bottom, existing in comparatively, to wild dungeon or subterraneous concavity; that part of the water within the compass of its bottom forms the fall of water from on high, effected so emphatically by the cascade, that it emitted a candid exhalation, particularly in humid season, overflowing the said compass of the water from the one side to the other, that the visible effluvium might gratify the desire of the beholders, those that giving tendence to object of asperity aspect. To conclude, the above cascade’s state of being exhibition to the sight, mightily exceed sundry hermits in higher renown at the interim than its existence.
To enter of giving a short definition of a beautiful plush of water in Glenbuch, about where the ground yielding downward with gradual descend to the other side, which will excite astonishment to see a lake on such a high place.
Another elegant lake in Glenogle, adjacent to the top of the hills passage there, famous for fishing, as trouts, such delicate spotted fish, inhabiting brooks and quick streams. Anent ancient predication of the ensuing narration of Glenogle, which affirms, that ten children, on certain day, doing something fanciful or in frolic merriments, close to the lake above narrated, they were taken unawares to see a horse from the lake; his appearance so avariciously, that they were inordinately desirous to mount him. One of them got up on his back; the rest acted with the same levity, till the ten furnished with room there. No sooner than they were admitted to that dismally seat, than the horse entered the lake concomitantly with the crew; only the hindmost fell over, who brought home the titling of the fatal event.
Anciently, in the vicinity of the said lake, a notorious robber inhabiting a cave or hollow, running horizontally below the form of the old road there, where his cruel sagacity perceived by the ear the people passed and repassed there, ravening them with perpetrate force of all the money would appear in their custody, who was such a violent assaulter, that it was timorous for the wayfaring to pass in the proximity of his concavity under any cloud of the night. At the same time, it is said, that another assaulter inhabited a cave in Craig-maurianich, laying a distant from Glenogle. His first name was Paul, who was on certain time a distant from his cave, detected or convicted by the inhabitants, acting perhaps in his pernicious practice. They followed him in such hostile intention, that one of the pursuers drew his bow on venture, by which the arrow entered the assaulter’s heel. By his hot imagination to have recourse to shelter, he got some advantage of ground of uneven surface, that he meet with, excavate for lurking himself, where he disappear to his pursuers, from where he got to his cave; at the same time imagine by him proper, after using all his intellectual means for having him extricated of the arrow, it approved ineffectual. Such intimacy contracted between him and the foresaid assaulter inhabited the cave in Glenogle, that he went to him in dead time of night to disengage him of the arrow. The one was residing in the said cave of Glenogle was a ferocious assaulter, of great ability of body, who embraced every opportunity of robbing people of their own; which rapacity of manifold prejudice to people both far and near, till at last he was banished by a valiant man, when the execution of that purpose came to him, and overcame, which was a consolatory tiding, and the most topic comfort to the rural. The said cave disfigured in consequence of so many years uninhabited.
It merits the trouble to exhibit a description of a part of Glenogle’s Grampian mountains, disjointed in the time of the generations past; which event happen about the twilight, that the dread of the horrible sight seized the beholders with fear, ultera the comprehension of the individual, discernible to their sight. The pillars of fire rising from the parting of the rock, 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 the day of the said battle, Edinchip was denominated of the place.
Sketch of an Ancient History deserves to be Inserted.
In the longeris of the above delineation, that a rapacious crowd of people arrived from north to the vicinity, to take away the inhabitants cattle there, would be in sight to their cruel eyes, according to ancient predication of old men; the said ravished crowd was convicted or discovered ton a brae-face near Killin, called Scronachlachan; of which the inhabitants obtained the unacceptable tiding, that the sudden perplexity seized their minds in uproar of the highest bustle, confusion, and tumult, at their assembling to resist the ravishers. A gallant gentleman resided at Glenlarig, near Killin at that time, whose surname was Menzie, had a nickname, Major Roy of the Hens; a valiant hand, stout, personally puissant. He projected a plan to them for the detriment of the ravishers, which he incited to adopt,–that they should take quietly around the hill, on which its face the ravishers were discovered to descend rapidly on them as an aid to recess them; otherwise, if they were to ascend to them from below, that was giving advantage to the ravishers to cut them down like fearn, to be salvated of their blood. But the inhabitants were in such uproar, throwing to confusion and harrass on their apprehension, that all their beasts of pasture at the point of being seized with violence, and snatched away by these devouring plunderers, that the said plan was overthrown by them, proceeded to them from them from below, where they meet in conflict manner. The commander of the ravishers were ambitiously to obtain a sight of the said gallant gentleman joined the inhabitants, in consequently of his hearing that he was a man eminently for bravery, to have his hand imbrued in his blood. In prosecution of his atrocious search for that sanguinary intent, the first man he interrogate for him, the same were the one he was in quest for. He asked at him, in proud expression, how he could have a view of the Major Roy of the Hens among his associal crowd? To which the Major’s reply, that he was the very same man, instantly facing him. Whereupon they drew the swords, had but short duel, when the Major cut off his antagonist’s head; which head run down with a steep part of the hill: To the amazement of the hearers the head uttered three times Hen, the word that was in the mouth at cutting the head’s juncture. It is probably that the tongue remained partly in power to recapitulate her momentary expression as the head parted with his cement. The inhabitants and the ravishers engaged in the most hostile manner; which conflict was attended with such dreadful bloodshed, that a small brook descending from about the place where the bloody engagement was fought, running totally red, that days by the blood of the slains, emitting incopiously effluxion to it, for which horrible sight the said brook denominated in Gaelic Auldnis Scroulach, which probably signify in English, the Water of the Blood Streams. This brook displayed to view at the place adjoined to Killin. Who can harbour the deplorable case of the slains relictly friend, by the discovery of the bloodshed partly gushing from their endearments amours. Reciprocal relations in the secular life, how their minds affected of bemoaning feeling; womens bewailing over the deprivation of their correlative husbands; mothers lamented the bereaving of their sons, finding some of them ex animato having no resemblance of life, others wallowed in their blood, parting with them at the emission of their breath. The dissocial was dreary, the valediction wearing the habit of sorrow, who was on the morning of that dies with their homoletical, without any conception or idea to occur any perturbate or violation of peace would interdict them from their families, charming social at the returning night, notwithstanding that they has the exhilarate frustion of social pleasure in the morning. The meeting of the returning evening was dismal and horrible. Many families sobbed with audible mournful noise, in the fatal consequence of the deprivation of their rulers, that its penetrate sense would impress the hearers to the greatest touching to their feeling.
The ravishers was well furnished with bows and arrows; their eyes were close on the foresaid gallant gentleman, their jaws were open to embrace every opportunity to cut his tract of life, in consequence of observing that he was a daring adventurous man, and the slaughter of indiscriminate destruction done by him in the fatal action, besides depriving their commander of his life, a coalisive number of these assassinate devourers plunderers, thirsty after this eminent gentleman’s blood, assayed to encompass him to have their sanguinary design executed, by which he was seized of no less than nine arrows: Which occurrence in lower degree would enforce many to retire; but in state of that he shewed such splendid courage that he swimed over that of the river near Killin’s Inn, in that posture, to his habitate, to have himself extricated of the arrows. The day after that fatal day, a valiant number of Breadalbane people, or tenants, went after the ravishers, and took the prey back, after killing the ravishers utterly, except about two escaped.
At a short space after that bloody engagement, a young child viewing about the mountain for what would appear of the dissipated scattered cattle, occasioned by that fatal event, the direction of his search conducted him toward a little house build on a shealing, of which he was amazed, overhearing groaning as a person were afflicted on a bed of languishing. Upon his entry to the hovel, who discovered but one of the wound ravishers leaving there by the rest, being impatient in cause of lassitude bearing him, on whom he perceived part of his father’s garments, who fell in the fatal action. Upon challenged the same as claimant, the wounded ravisher reply: If he was he father to whom that soiled garment belongs, that he deprived many other of their life before himself fall in the action, and that would be for no vale to him to lay hand on a man in the afflicted posture he was, having the resemblance of death in his countenance already; but the feeling of his father’s death affected the young man that he killed him on the spot. One of the men was on the world in time of old, unnaturally large, or in size above the ordinary rate of men, was interred near the inn of Killin. His name and his sepulchre is signification of denominating Killin first of the place. His grave displayed to view as hitherto.
In the time of the generations past, a barbarous man was residing in the vicinity of Loch-Earn-head, who was notoriously for savageness of manner. Incivility he would cross a river there, called the river of Kndrum, to take by theft or clandestine practice the sheep of the inhabitants had their place of abode over against him on the other side of the said river, whenever he would play the thief of obtaining one of their sheep on his shoulders upon his return to the said river, on which part of her no building raised over the water for the convenience of passage, but two big sharp stones in the water, these laying such a distant from each other, that it is not probably that any of the present generation would leap or jump; but the foresaid barbarous man would stand on one of the stones already mentioned, with his theft burden about his neck, and skip or move forwardly to the other, without step or sliding; which jump is a great object of amazement or astonishment to the beholders that will examine the distant between the said stones,–which stones perspicuously to view to this day. The within-mentioned barbarous man, for his incoherent transactions, had his pistol once standing in need of being repaired, or to be restored after injury of dilapidation which happened in his practical sanguinary engagement; at which time three men arrived to a place that was not laying a great distant from his habitation, which men were cunning in brass and an iron work. They sheltered themselves in a vacant house there for some days, acting in the line of their profession. Upon his receiving intelligence that they were there, he thought proper to go purposely to them to obtain his pistol altered for the better, which they performed to him. After the foresaid cruel man got the job ultimately finished, he asked at one, though three men already mentioned, what was his demand for his trouble, to which his reply sixpence. Then each of the other two demanded the same wages, being associal or united in the same trade, and fellow-partners in repairing the pistol. After he had settle with each of them, he handed the pistol, addressing his speech to them, that it was requisite for him to try how the pistol would fire after the repairing of it, attended with such considerable expense. In prosecution of his attrocious design, he point or direct toward one of them as object, who was forthwith shot dead. Thus they was rewarded at last by that bloody monster.
Two great stones in the vicinity of Loch-Earn-head, so close to each other, that it is probably that they were in sometime after the creation of the universe; but as to the convulsion that the stone parted asunder, it passed the human idea. In the time of old, a man of uncommon strength, called by first name Envie, who was on some emergent occasion pursued by his enemies, being thirsty to be satiated of his blood, who became languid in consequence of his weary lassitude by the sanguinary pursuit of his enemies, in the directtion of the course of shunning the approaching hazard, he leaned on the stone above-mentioned, who was forthwith surrounded by his pursuers; but he being a man of such splendid courage and power of body, that he defended himself by the sword, that his pursuers could not prevail to overcome him, till at last one of them got up on the top of the stone, that he came unaware upon him, by which intellectual plan got her daggered. Ever since that time, as hitherto, the stone called the Stone of Envie, in memory of the man’s name.
In the ancient time, when the woods was more copious repletion both on the hills and on the level than it is at present, particular the oaks, which woods was a habitation to voracious wild animals, such as wolfs, which animal would slipped imperceptibly to houses, eluding observation, when the people at the field acting in their domestic management, a certain man, after being disengaged of his dies employment, upon his return to his house, he directed his eyes through the window to meet hypochondrical discovery of his youngest child on the one side of the fire, and the wolf on the other side. Upon the child to have an idea of being one of his father’s dogs, he uttered some merriment expression to him, as gaiety laughter, at which his father’s bowels did yarn over him, observing his endearment amorous child at the hazard of being swallowed up or tear in pieces by that voracious animal; but as Providence meant otherwise for him, he drew his bow adventure, pointing to the said animal, with much anxiety how to screen his child from being injured or molested by the arrow; at which point he finished the above animal.
About the same time, the cattle of Glendochard inhabitants, has been taken away by violence or pillage, by barbarous men of incoherent transactions. At that depredation, a most excellent bull break out from the force of the ravisher; which bull shelter himself in a vacant hovel, laying a distant from the rest of the houses; he was much troubled by one of the wolfs already mentioned, for which he was laying between the door posts holding his head out to fence with that animal,–the said combat has been observed by two men going that way. Upon some emergent occasion, the said men came on the day following with bows and arrows, and placed themselves on the house top where the said bull sheltered himself, waiting on the animal’s coming. Upon his first discovery, the men persuaded that he was of greater stature or size than his usual circumference, they marked two of the wolfs close together with a cross stick in their month. When they arrive to the bull, they yoked together on him; the men drew their bows and killed them on the spot. When they descended off the house top to look at them, they found one of them blind. It was the purpose of the other to lead the blind one by the stick, to acquire his assistance to finish the said bull, being the one had practical accustomed of assaying to kill him himself.
FINISH.