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FALLS OF GARRAWALT AND CORRAMDLZIE.
strictly preserved from the intrusion of sheep or any other
animals, exhibit a solitary and impressive grandeur rarely
witnessed in any other part of the country. A visit to Loch-
nagar and Ben-muich-dhui will afford the tourist a very good
conception of this description of scenery, and the Oastleton of
Braemar is the best place from which to start on both these
expeditions.
The principal objects of interest visited from Braemar are
Braemar Castle, and view from Invercauld Bridge (3-|- miles),
Invercauld House (4 miles), and Balmoral (9 miles), already
described ; the Falls of the Garrawalt (5 miles), the Falls of
Corramulzie (3 miles), the Linn of Quoich, the Linn of Dee (7
miles). These are the nearer excursions. The more distant
are to Lochnagar (12 miles), to Ben-muich-dhui and Loch
A’an (20 miles). But if these two last (to Lochnagar and
Ben-muich-dhui) are taken, they will include all the others
except Balmoral.
In the close vicinity of the village are the remains, little
beyond the foundation, of the old castle, where the Earl of
Mar raised the standard of rebellion in 1715.
The Falls of the Garrawalt are five miles east, on the decli¬
vity of the dusky pine forest of Balloch-bowie. They are
approached by passing Braemar Castle on the left, and turning
off at the Bridge of Invercauld (3J miles from Castleton), by
the road to right, which forms one of the new drives constructed
along the natural terraces of the forest banks. The first road
to the left conducts to Balmoral (12 miles from Castleton this
way); the road to the falls is straight on. The Garrawalt
Water rolls over a bank of considerable height, which, though
not perpendicular, gives a thundering and foamy torrent; but
as a cataract, it is rather deficient in interest, from its not dis¬
gorging itself into one of those black cauldrons, which give a
mysterious, frightful, and characteristic feature to most of the
Highland falls. A neat wooden bridge crosses the stream and
conducts to a fog-house, a favourite point for viewing the rush¬
ing water, with its rocks and trees.
The Falls of Corramulzie are three miles westwards from
Castleton by the road passing the Fife Arms to the Linn of
Dee and Ben-muich-dhui. The path to the falls strikes off
from the main road on the right, a short way beyond Corra-