Unique Traditions Chiefly of the West And South of Scotland
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Sometimes the walk is on a level with the stream, and sometimes the stream is heard to dash wildly far beneath. At one place a rustic seat invites you to sit down ; at another, a grotto or an arbour tempts you to enter in. At all seasons of the year, this little ravine is impressive or romantic ; but when the full umbrage of summer hangs over the rocks and the rivulet, and at certain sta- tions partly conceals both ; and when the little birds are singing sweetly from bough to bough, the scenery... certainly partakes of the fascina- tions of fairy -land ; and while the black-bird whistles in an evening, or the cushat coos plaintively above your head, it recalls all the sensations of melancholy and deprivation of the serious mind. A fog -house was lately seen standing on an eminence above the stream, from which a bird's-eye prospect unfolds much of the glen beneath, and from whence some views of the surrounding country may be taken in contrast. The little stream issuing from the 112 UNIQUE TRADITIONS.
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