Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1871 to 1900 > Cunntas air boidhicheadan Ceann-Lochearn agus Edinample, or, A description of the beauties of Edinample and Lochearnhead

If any who have not access to the same
mode of conviction should be disposed to be
sceptical, let them reflect, that the mind
inevitably catches its tone and character
from the scenery and local circumstances
with which it is most conversant. Hence
the elevation of the Highland character;
the lofty spirit of the mountain hero; the
towering sublimity of the mountain bard.
In men of genius and sensibility, this sym¬
pathy between mind and external nature
is particularly powerful; and hence the
peculiarities of our Author’s manner. One
who, on the summits of the Grampian
mountains, with a mind of kindred gran¬
deur, treads habitually, as it were, in the
the sky, naturally acquires a loftiness of
thought, inconceivable to the inhabitants
of humble regions. His very language and
style harmonizes (sic) with the objects a-
mong which he lives. Lifted by his hills to
the clouds and storms, he insensibly imi¬
tates the sublime obscurity in which he is
almost daily enveloped. His speech, bold,
rugged, and abrupt, as the rocks which defy
all access but to the wing of the eagle and
the vulture, bids equal defiance to those
who would scan his meaning by the regular