Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-09-25
A VISIT TO THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND.

IHyERxEss, MoNDAySince last wrote tho royal doings
- 4 NAV appear 10 common
people, the Queen and the Prince amusing themselves
very much in the fashion in vogue amongst ordinary English
heather 4s9
There is shooting fishing, walking, riding and driving,
pleasantly and profaby varied by breakasng lunching,
dining, supping, and sleeping
What have the world do with number Of grouse
which have tumbled before the Princes doubebae and is
it matter Of historic import know whether the steps of
her Maess highland pony have been traced upon the green
swad round the LODGE amidst the purple heather the
hills above it I
Let rather try if now, while people think
ing and talking of the hills strike topic more less
connected with hem and which at least profit
able your readers the outgngs and ncomngs of Gen.
Wemyss the nursery evoluons of the little prince and
princess of the blood
Well, to make the effort In approaching Loch Laggan
from Fort William the traveller will not fail TO notice the
huge which fling back their dun from
the lower extremity of the lake. These great hills form part
Of the hunting grounds of the Marques of Abercon and
Prince Albert has believe been playing at deerstaking
their misty Sides They are, in fact, deer forest.
"Ah, see," says the English reader; nice trees and
glades with antered stags trotng about the big
gentemans park with drives and avenues and neat gate
ways and raiings and trim porer's lodge.
Not A Highland deer forest mountain dis
trc-a wilderness, among which lie lakes through
which torrents go foamng for miles and miesa range OF
savage country, stretching further than good pedestrian
would toll between early dawn and late
dreay territory of healthy slopes and sterile upands
of awful goges and ravnes Of icy mountain peaks Of black
heath and gray whinstone. And all this vast domain is
cred to the deer Cottershe old hardy people Of these
hlswee long ago turned adt to make way for sheep and
owland grazers now, and mutton cleared equally
before the stag and his kinds The deer will not brook
twoegged intruder. They would him miles away upon
the sky ne snuff the odor Of approaching humanity from
end of glen to the other and therefore the hills
be unproaned by shoe leather Not a shepherd,
tourist not wandering peasant dare break the magic crce
and tread the heather tabood by North Sea islanders
Solitudinem fuciun deer-forest apeLunf Not living
thing may the hauns Of these lonely creatures
until mayhap the ducal of the forest, with his High
land gies and English keepers chooses decree weeks
saughtering of the animals carefully preserved to be
ruhlessy destroyed. e.
Bu says the English reader "by what right dare
stop another upon those savage wds lying unncosed
and unrecamed just they the Romans landed at
Deal !"
BY the right of might reader. Just try yourself Put
yourself board Scotch seamer-thence get into stage
coachthee still such things in this part OF the world
and in due time you will arrive the foot ofsay the
Cairngorm mountains These the highest and most
fully savage group in island. You will not find more
supendous precipces, ghasty ravnes round Mont
Blanc the Jungau, than encirce Ben Mulch Dhu Loch
Amen lies black torpid gloom, grded in by hills and rocks
which desoaon personifed Amid their you
might starve comfortably and completely in Nova Zem
ba and stretched Of icy snow, might be fro
during midsummer nights dream. Braving those pc
rs however, off you goyour in your hand and
your knapsack your back-to visit district which High
land legends have always pointed to OF the Wild
in this country, by peopling with all Of spirits
of desoaton-ulers Of the wind the Storm the rain, the
mist
But Caingorm a different potenate. The Duke
of Leeds the monarch of the waste and just of the
most goousy savage bits of glen and bill begin to open up
before you, nsoent gille will from clump of
heather from behind rock, and order you back in the
of his gracious grace. There alternative Show
fight you like, your umbrella against the funkys gun but
the odds that not valiant and that you turn
your back upon the group Of the Carngoms in comp
mentary disposition towards the keepers,
The lord-their god-his grace.
But there the road you hnk-the road the immemoral
way which all the world had right long before the Duke
ever heard Of and which they will have right to long
after be is forgotten.
Heaven bless you Duke is bigger in the High
lands than you think Of What is road his grace What
is a right of way to his grace What is path-belongng
Tor thousand years to the pubc-to his grace Nothing
He barrcades it. He sennes il with bis giies No pas
sage this way The glorious scenery in Britain is bar
red to the Bnshthe free roads of this free nation stop
ped its free the artist in search OF anjscapehe
tourist in search of the pcturesquehe peasant seeking to
from ath to the other of the countless
Macs, his kth and kinall turned back. The Duke
wills it, because passenger out of fifty might perchance
stumble upon a red deer, which would gaze him
men its anered head the shoulder Of the
hill, and in half hour be couched in the green
breckans.
The grand plea Of these gentlemenwho for the payment
perhaps of fifteen hundred year arrogae themselves
the right Of solating waste country big hall good
sized English county, shutting up the roads, refusing pas
sage TO single being throughout its simply that pedes
TRANS disturb and frghten the deer doubt it, stag may
look at cockncyand in my humble opinion the cockney is
very likely to be the most frightened animal Of the two But
granting the discontinue Of the four footed gazer-vhat of in
He will not be frightened vanish into thin air. He
will trot of, one two three miles and then when it is
his good pleasure stop crop the herbage until another cock
ney appears who will probably fghten him back again to
his original position No wants to put the Dukes deer
in his pocket There they will be when the leaves
just as they when he came, barring tro Of perhaps
dozen miles, which, animals Of their Of sedenary
habits cannot be matter of much personal inconvenience
But even granting that wandering tourist would ghten
every stag in the hills into fits, do ali why they
should not be frightened into fits Men before deerscenery
before dukes We not TO be shut Of the passes
warned away from the most glorious scenery Of land
for either dukes deer His grace Leeds must throw
open Genlubeg and his grace Atol must withdraw the
blockade of Genilt modern Lord Of the Isles once tried
draw chain the Fngas Cave in Sta
h only be removed when each passenger in The boat had
tabled down his sxpence We shall have none of these
chains either Of men metal The unencosed hills are
mems property to walk The gores of rock and torrent
and mountain mist for all See and wonder and adj
mire The 0Vaeen is amongst them. don't know IL
the Duke Leeds would permit her thread GlenIubeg
but II hint would be taken by the duca auocra do think
that nothing would be grateful of the Queens
visit than the expression Of the Royal wish, which would in
oil probably again unlock all her Maestys peaceful sub
jects the glorious scenery Of Athol and Bacmar A. b. r.