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GLEN ETIVE. 307
manufactures have tried to settle here, and in that little hole
up on the side of the hill it is said that the last Marquis of
Breadalbane spent sixty thousand pounds looking for lead,
and perhaps he spent somewhat more, trying to make vitriol
outside with the minerals got from within the hill. Our ride
being short, we shall need no rest here, but we shall again
take the private rather than public conveyance ; we must
spend some time on the way.
We drive along first an unpromising wild road, and seem
to be rushing among pathless hills, but soon we go down to
the plain, and we need not fear, since everywhere the roads
are good, and you see that our horses are strong. As we
move down we come on an unexpectedly open space, and
whilst the wild hills of the deer forest of the Black Mount are
on the left, we come on the famous Ben Doran to the right. ^
Maro;aet. — It is big but not beautiful, sloping and not
varied.
Cameron. — Yet it had power to produce a fine enthusiasm in
Duncan Maclntyre, as you will see if you read Professor
Blackie's translation of his poem. This to first appearance
rather smooth and stony side is long, and if the other is
equally so it is a large place not easily passed over by men,
except the best of walkers. But listen to Maclntyre and you
will hear that behind that too flat side, and perhaps upon it,
there are numerous dens where deer can hide and men may
be lost.-
1 It is often written "Dorain," but I suppose that to be the genitive case.
-See p. 162, Laiigitaof and Li f era fun' of t lie Scottish Highlands, hy
John Stuart Blackie, Professor of (ireek in the University of Edinburgh :
Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh, 1876,