Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 11361-h.htm or 11361-h.zip: (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/3/6/11361/11361-h/11361-h.htm) or (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/3/6/11361/11361-h.zip) THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. VOL. 13, NO. 377.] SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1829. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * Loch Goil Head [Illustration: Loch Goil Head] AND RESIDENCE OF CAMPBELL, THE POET. The Engraving represents Loch Goil Head, a small village in Argyleshire, as it name imports, at the end of Loch Goil. It is an exquisite vignette, of Alpine sublimity, and is rendered extremely interesting as the residence of Thomas Campbell, Esq. author of the "Pleasures of Hope," &c. and one of the most celebrated of British poets. His _château_, or retreat, is represented on the left of the Engraving, and its romantic position has probably inspired many of the soul-stirring compositions of the illustrious resident. In this parish are the remains of Carrick Castle, which is said to have been built by the Danes. It stands on a rock, and was formerly surrounded by a ditch filled by the sea. The whole county in which Loch Goil is situate, is indeed a region of romantic beauty and mountain wild; of the last, Ben Cruchan is a sublime specimen, rising 3,300 feet above the level of the sea. At Inverary, the splendid castle of the Duke of Argyle rears in all the pride of art amidst the more lasting sublimities of nature; and in the same vicinity is Loch Lomond, whose limpid streams bathe the foot of Ben Lomond, where the tourist is fascinated with one of the most glorious scenes in nature. The valley of Glencoe, too, is not far distant, with all its opposite associations of massacre and maurauder, by its severe and desert aspect, recalling to the traveller's mind the most elevated defiles of the Alps, and whose massive heaps of rocks covered with shaggy turf are the only charms to gladden the eye. At Ardinglass, a few miles from Loch Goil, begins the country of _the Campbells_, storied and consecrated with some of the most brilliant epochs of Scottish lore. The steam-boat on the lake is an attractive object in such a district as Loch Goil--by associating one of the boasted triumphs of art with the stupendous grandeur of the sublime. * * * * * HILLAH ON THE EUPHRATES.