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

BENIVENOW.
Benivenow, in Aberfoyle, is perhaps'
one of the mofl pidurefque mountains iir
Britain. Its height is about 2800 feetv.
On the north, (the afped of the moun-
tain which now prefents itfelf,) belides
the immenfe mafTes of rock, which ap-
pear in this and in all other mountains^
to have been, by fome convullion of Na-
ture, torn from the fummit, the whole
flope is covered, for two-thirds upwards,
with alders, birches^ and mountain afhes,
of ancient growth ; and fprinkled over
the furface, with a grace and beauty un-
attainable by the hand of art. At the
firfl opening of Loch Ketturrin efpecial-
ly, and for a confiderable way along the
Lake, the flioulder of Benivenow, ftretch-
ing northward, in abrupt mafles, towards
the fhore, prefents a floping ridge, ele-
gantly feathered with birches, in a ftyle
which the pencil may, in fome degree,
B 2 exhibit _,