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40 JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND
bookcase, the backs and titles of books being
painted on canvas within the glass doors.
Gaelic service was going on in the kirk,
which was compleatly full. I listened at the
door awhile ; the preacher was loud and
appeared to be vehemently earnest. In this
and in the other villages which we have past,
Vintner is written up where whiskey is sold.
Sixteen miles to Kenmore, or Taymouth.
For the first mile you keep part of the way
by the Dochart, which forms some fine
i^emansos, or resting-places (we have no
equivalent word) before it enters the lake.
There is a good bridge over it. The
remainder of the road (we were on the left,
that is the northern side) is always within
sight of the water, but considerably above it ;
and therefore for the sake of a shorter line,
it goes up and down many hills, all which
might have been avoided by keeping the
shore : thus more is lost in time and labour
than is gained in distance, and in this instance
the lower line would have been the more
beautiful, or at least no beauty would be lost
by it. The country is very well cultivated.
When Lord Breadalbane turned his mountains
into sheep-farms, he removed the Highlanders
to this valley. The evil of the migration, if