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    328 RAMBLES NORTHWARD.

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    our arrival while the elder sister performed a hasty toilette , was , it seemedfrihtened out of 3 ier witsand said the first thing- that

    , g , came into her head , sticking to it afterwards from sheer nervousness . Under the auspices of her sister the fire soon burnt brightly , a neat

    clean cloth was laid , and by the time we were ready an excellent terms piece of with roast ourselves mutton graced and our the surroundings table and put . us The at once good on peop excellent le of

    the inn were busy preparing the house for the season , the best rooms in which had hitherto been devoted to sportsmen , quarters

    small as the cabins of a first-class steamer , a Cunarder for instance , "being all that were left for tlie public . A shooting-box , however , had

    just been erected on the shootings , and the inn was now for the first time set free for the accommodation of travellers , whose

    hardships in foregone years were pathetically dwelt upon by the kind hearted hostess and her daughters : and truly Kinlock Ewe is

    an out of the way place in which to find oneself disappointed of expected accommodation for the night , and obliged either to go

    on after dusk to Gairlock , passing Loch _JVJaree and its wondrous scenery in the dark , or to return to the point last quitted . But

    tliese are things of the past , and ample and comfortable accommoda- . tion is now pretty sure to be found .

    And now our Rambles Northward draw to a close . Monday morning found us all refreshedand we turned away with reluctance

    , from this beautiful locality to bend our steps southward . The dun mare , thoroughly restored , commenced her old tricks , and nearly

    sent us out head foremost , by an abrupt curve out of the road , and a dead stop just as we drove from the inn .

    * ' I took her down there to water yesterday , " said Macgregor , ever readwith an excuse for liis pet rnare , and apparently quite

    indifferent y to the danger to our necks and his own , to which her eccentric conduct subjected us .

    The drive to Garvie by _Aucliennasheen is interesting , and the first two miles ascent from Loch Maree to the mountain road offer a

    series of exquisite views of this rarely beautiful lake . At Garvie we parted with _Macgreg'or and his famous mare , who ,

    spite of her tricks , had fairly established her claim to her master ' s forbearance and regard . A stauncher or more sure-footed animal

    it would not be easy to find , for , spite of the bad roads and the long distance she had come , —a hundred and thirty miles in the three

    travelling days , Friday , Saturday , and Monday , —not one false step did she make , and the last £ . y _& miles found her gayer and fresher

    than at starting . So good-bye to Macgregor and his mare , good man and good beast , characters both whom we consider it luck

    to have met with . Prom Garvie we returned to Inverness , our starting point , and

    thence by Loch . Ness , the Pass of Glencoe , and Loch Lomond , south . Oli , all ye who love nature , and who have hitherto contented

    yourselves with the Trossachs and Loch Lomond , hereafter go

    328 Rambles Northward.

    328 RAMBLES NORTHWARD .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 328, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/40/