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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1887)
THE LOCHS AND BENS OF SCOTLAND. AT a more genial season of the year, Thcro Is no brcczo upon the fern, during the bewitching month of No riPPle on tho laVc. June, we made a journey through Un h,er 7io n(x1' , ' 11 i T The deer nafl Bought the brako ; the far-famed Trossachs, by one of the Xho BmaU blrj8 will not Hlng ftlouJ coaches of the much-frequented route, Tho springing trout lies still, entering upon it at Callander, a small So darkly glooma yon thunder cloud, village of Western Perthshire, near the That Bwalhc M wlth ft Punl h"uil, point where the Lochs Lubnaig and Ve- diHUnt hllL nachar unite to form the Teith. The Near Loch Acray, the road makes a trip, coach and steamer alternating, pass- 8uddenturn, disclosing the spur of tho es through many of the scenes commem- mountain which forms the entrance to orated in " The Lady of the Lake," and the Trossachs proper, a wild scene of we were hardly more than entered upon mountain, rock and wood, and near tho it before a hollow to the south was point- entrance of the gorge, or defile, wo aro ed out, by our communicative driver, as reminded of the spot whero Fitz-Jamcs Coilantogle ford, the point where Rod- " lost his gallant gray." erick Dhu challenged Fitz-James to sin- King James V.'s ready participation gle combat, after having granted him, jn the popular amusements of archery, Lis enemy, life and protection wrestling, hurling tho bar, and other See, here all vantageless I Btand, gymnastic exercises of the day, was one Armed, like thyself, with single brand, cause of his acquiring the tltlo of king For this is Coilantogle Ford, of the Commons "another, his attcn- And thou must keep theo with thy sword, tion to the interests of tho lowest and Shortly beyond, we came in sight of most oppressed class of his subjects. Loch Venachar, and then followed Lan- For the purpose of seeing that jus ico rich mead, the gathering ground of tho was regularly ad ministered and fre Clan Alpine; the highland huts of Dun- qntly from a motive of gallantry, ho craggan; the opening of the deer forest od to travel m various disguises, of Glenfinlas; and the bridge renowned Until tho present road was made for the couplet- tbmngh !ho yomantio pass, there was no mode of issuing out of tho defile called And when tho Brigg of Turk was won, Bachs, except by a sort of lod The headmost horseman rodo alone. of tho brflncLea an(1 rooU Hero we reach the gentle Loch Ach- 0f tho trees, which Fitz-James is rcpro ray, and where, indeed, sentcd as making use of. Shall one find, in foreign land, And now, to Ihhuo from tho glen, So lono a lake, bo sweet a Btrand ? jf0 pathway iinto tho wanderer ki;n, Union he climb, with (voting nice, Its peaceful character still perfectly A lllt vroyCnv precipice. presenes and answers to the description Tho brooro'i touh root hi Mt mado, of the poem Tlie k1 iaplingii lent their aid,