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    326 EAMBLES NORTHWARD.

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    tler only ? sex for " the as can hale stow and active , clothes and for such h in among a moderate " the sized genenoug

    carpet and strong hag * to boots last for with several an away extra weeks dress . A -skirt good in stock case of of cle a an wetting linen ,

    , forming Poolewe * all Inn the allowable at the head supp of ly Loch . Ewe , was our resting-place for

    instant the night an . Italian The , tall road , gaunt -side , inn discolored and the exterior internal suggested accommodation on the

    partook salmon station very much and of the the season same , was character just . at Poolewe its commenc is a em great ent ;

    salmon found was it the , onl Salmon y thing fresh to be from had the for supper water , and and salmon very excellent as we

    we . , different know it in edibles London the in former its very finest be and eaten priniest at breakfast condition , dinner , are , quite and may

    of forms supper Scotland during , with . the the A ; same few season stragg impunity a stap ling le as article houses mutton of and food -chop huts along or , with beef the -steak west a church , coast and , the

    manseand school-houseform the hamlet of Poolewe , manse belongs fortune being , inhabited to has schools the reputation , b so y that a , lad the y of who parish being devotes of better Gairloch her provided , time to which , ener with g Poolewe ies schools , and

    than A short any , other and in the id river Highlands , bring . ing with it the "waters of Locli

    course Maree of here this emp river rap ties Loch Itself Maree into the miht sea be . reached If one in could a short follow walk the , g

    but its channel lies , among steep and inacessible rocks , and though traveller a bridle path is obli leads ged to more make directl a considerable y across the detour heights from , the Poolewe carriage to

    Maree Gairloch ! in , . and thence arison to with the which shores Lochs of Loch Katrine Maree and * Beautiful Lomond must Loch

    hide their comp diminished heads . picturesque Eighteen islands miles long , and and encompassed two broad by , its wild fine and waters lofty dotted mountains road from with ,

    its Loch Gairloch natural Maree runs aspect is along at once , while the savage southern the , opposit grand shore , e and bank of the beautiful shows lake , which . the The indu still stry retain and in s

    vain enterprise , thoug of h so man wild strugg and strong ling with is Nature nature here , and that not she altogeth still er rules dominant over the scene , and bids fair to maintain her reign

    members cut triump down hant of for . the the Nearl " smelting forest y a century prim of eval iron ago / ore ' , noble the , the but woods old western here pines of and Loch , stan there d Maree as isolated records of were the

    lak of the e are past re- , clothed while the by that mountain " Lad s y of of the Woods , " the extremity elegant rustle birch d b , ilie whose wind liglit they branches gracefull dispense bend and a gracious bow before perfume the , roug as , h visitant y ,

    who twists , and twirls and y snaps the members of their less yielding

    sisters of the forest .

    326 Eambles Northward.

    326 EAMBLES NORTHWARD .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/38/