Ossian Collection > Sketches descriptive of picturesque scenery, on the southern confines of Perthshire

ADVERTISEMENT.
THE County of Perth^ throughout its
whole extent, has been long celebrated for-
the beauty and sublimity of its scenery.
But that dist. iSi, which lies i?mnediately on-
its confines, towards the southwest, and
borders on Stirlingshire, has, of late years,
attracted, in a peculiar manner, the atten^
tion and admiration of Travellers. Whilst
Killin, Tay mouth, Blair in J thole, Dunkeld-
and Perth, with ?nany other situations in
this extensive county, exhibit scenes of ex-
quisite beauty and grandeur ; the picturesque
environs of Callander ; the sublime magni-
ficence of the Trosachs ; and the milder
beauties of Lochard, and of the Vale of Aber-
foyle, mujfjlrike and delight every Traveller
oftqfte.
Some respeBabk Gentlemen zvho visited
these scenes last summer (1S05), with
high admiration, seemed to desiderate such
a description of this district as might
a serve,