New-York daily tribune., 1843-10-18
Winch IN Shining cluster lie,
Oa winch the south wind scarcely breaks
The image of the Sky

Loch Achray, another brigh dimple on the fair
face of Nature, next appears, and on its bank is
a Highland Inn, so perfectly covered with ivy
and roses, that the windows can only peep
through holes cut III the luxuriant foliage. 1t
bears the euphonous name Of Ardchcanochrochan,
which you may think very unpaatable; but
which is still more npronounceablcb by you as sas-
senachs.' After breakfast, which my walk
had well earned, and well qualified me to do JUS
tice to, set out with large party for the Tro-
sachs and Loeb katrnc. My imagination had
been kindled by the spirited poetry of Scott, and
eagerly watched for
' The path which twined, in shadow hid
Round many rocky pyramid.
Shooting abruptly from the dell,
It's thunder-splinered PINNACLE
and anxiously looked forward at every bend Of
the road hoping at each turn to see the famous
pass, through which rode the gallant knight of
Showdown" the hero of the Lady of the
Lake. and where lie saw with wondering adm
ration, how
l. The rocky SUBMITS, split and rent
Formed iurret, dome. or battlement
Or seemed fantastcallySet
With cupola or minaret;
w lid crests as raSod ever decked,
Or mosque Of Eastern architect
At length | asked the guide how soon we
should enter the TroSacils. He stared in aston
ishment and at length replied "You are now
nearly through them ~ And these petty rocks,
hills and trees, were the grand dehlc, now famous
| all the world over These fibbing poets have
| much to answer for. Where was the spot where
IL i or.n l., AL. eli.
Where glerinS streamers waved and danced,
The wanderers eye could barely view
The summer heavens delicious blue
| The wanderers eye must have been a very near
sighted one, or else the mountains have been sadly
dwared into hills, since Scott so raved about
them Their forms are sometimes fantastic, but
never grand they arc picturesque, but far from
majestic The far.famed Trosachs arc euualed
bya dozen scenes in the Western half of the single
State OF Massachusetts,. Could Scott have made
visit to our mighty mountains, LAKES and rivers,
| 1t would have been the touch-stone Of his genius
the erperimcntum crucis. Either he woul,!
have risen with his subject, and surpassed any
thing the world has yet received or else, over.
powered by The grandeur of nature, he would
have shown that, while OF all poets he could bes,
paint and decorate her prettnesscs, he was toe
weak to grapple with her in her sublime ma
jesty.
Ny disappointment in the Trosachs perhap.
prepared me the better 10 ENJOY the real beauties
the lakes though the zest with which, confess
the next day rc-read the poem OF the g Lady o
the Lake leaves me uncertain how many o
those beauties are due to nature and how man,
TO association.
I.och katrinc is perfect. The hills, the rock
and the wategfalls-the trees, the flowers, and th
. :. heather-the sunshine, the shadows and tn
mlsts-all are combined as in mastery picture
to unite in one beautiful effect. Ii IS dlthcul
to conceive that the tasteful hand OF man has no
: been assisting the careless wildness OF nature.
High on the North, through middle ak.
Z BEsAN heerea high bis forehead ea.r;
/, Whi!e on the South huge Bervesue
Down the lake rn.ss~s threw
{, Crsgs, knobs and moaud. eoufus' 'ily heri'd,
"a The fragments Of an earlier world
Aud wilderng forests fta,hesed DER
+ Their ruiped sides and suramira hoasp
i. Between them IS the dehle OF BeaI.an DUNE
d where FizJames lost his gallant gray" and
little syther on is El!ea's Isle" We rowe