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Title: Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861. To which are prefixed and added extracts from the same journal giving an account of earlier visits to Scotland, and tours in England and Ireland, and yachting excursions
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 Helps, Arthur, Sir, 1813-1875, ed
Subjects: Highlands (Scotland) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Smith, Elder and co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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Ben-y-Ghlo quite clearly, and all that range of hills;
then, further west, Shichallion, near Loch Tay; the
mountains which are near the Black Mount; and, quite
on the horizon, we could discern Ben Neids, which is
above Fort William.
Going up Cairn Turc we looked down upon Loch
Canter, a small loch above Loch Callater, very wild and
dark. We proceeded to Cairn Glaishie, at the extreme
point of which a cairn has been erected. We got off
to take a look at the wonderful panorama which lay
stretched out before us. We looked on Fifeshire, and
the country between Perth and Stirling, the Lohmond
Hills, &c. It was beautifully clear, and really it was
most interesting to look over such an immense extent of
the Highlands. I give a very poor description of it;
but here follows a rough account of the places we saw:—
To the North—Ben Muich Dhui, Brae Riach, Cairn-
gorm, Ben Avon, Ben-na-Bhourd.
To the East—Loch-na-Gar, &c.
To the South-West—Ben-y-Ghlo or Beny-Gloe, and the

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LUNCHEON AT CAIRN LOCHAN.
After a Drawing by Carl Haag

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surrounding hills beyond Shichallion, and the mountains
between Dunkeld and the Black Mount.
Quite in the extreme West—Ben Nevis.
To the South—the Lomond Hills; Perth in the middle
distance.

We walked on a little way, and then I got upon my
pony. Another half hours riding again over such singular
flat table-land, brought us on to the edge of the valley of,
Cairn Lochan, which is indeed " a bonnie place." It
reminded me and Louis of Clova; only there one did
not see the immense extent of mountains behind. Cairn
Lochan is a narrow valley, the river Isla winding through
it like a silver ribbon, with trees at the bottom. The
hills are green and steep, but towards the head of the
valley there are fine precipices. We had then to take a
somewhat circuitous route in order to avoid some bogs,
and to come to a spot where we looked right ip the

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