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Our road now skirted the banks of Loch Lomond, the largest fresh-water
lake in Scotland or England, being twenty-four miles long and five miles
in width at its broadest point, and containing over twenty islands, some
of which we saw. At the hotel where we called for tea it was thus
described:
Loch Lomond is the paragon of Scottish lakes. In island beauty
unrivalled, for all that forms romance is here--scenery varying and
increasing in loveliness, matchless combinations of grandeur and
softness united, forming a magic land from which poesy and painting
have caught their happiest inspirations. Islands of different forms
and magnitude. Some are covered with the most luxuriant wood of every
different tint; but others show a beautiful intermixture of rock and
coppices--some, like plains of emerald, scarcely above the level of
the water, are covered with grass; and others, again, are bare rocks,
rising into precipices and destitute of vegetation.
Scotland has produced many men mighty in mind as well as in body, and
their ideas have doubtless been enlarged not only by their advanced
system of education, but by the great things which have surrounded
them--the great rocks and the great waters.
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