YARROW UN VISITED.

��solation to be found. The long drought ot nearly two months

which had preceded my tour had dried up those rivulets which

Johnson crossed, running, as he describes them, " with a clear,

shallow stream over a

hard, pebbly bottom."

The main river had

still water in it ; but

we saw few indeed of

" the streams rushing

down the steep" which

fed it. In that part

of the narrow valley

where he reposed we

should have had only

a choice of dried-up

watercourses, had we

tried to select the

���bank on which he sat. For me Yarrow still remains unvisited. I have still to see

" Its silvery current flow With uncontrolled meander- ings."

Passing through Glen Clunie, which now boasts of a little inn where the traveller can find clean, if homely lodgings, they reached Glen Shiel.

It is worth notice that though the word Glen is in Johnson's Dictionary, so unfamiliar was it at this time to English ears, that using it in the letter in which he describes this day's journey, he adds, "so they call a valley." In Glen Shiel, writes Boswell,

��CLUNIE.

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