rock-broken, should you ascend the passes that lead into Glencreran or Glencoe. But to feel the full power of Glen Etive you must walk up it till it ceases to be a glen. When in the middle of the moor, you see far off a solitary dwelling indeed--perhaps the loneliest house in all the Highlands--and the solitude is made profounder, as you pass by, by the voice of a cataract, hidden in an awful chasm, bridged by two or three stems of trees, along which the red-deer might fear to venture--but we have seen them and the deer-hounds glide over it, followed by other fearless feet, when far and wide the Forest of Dalness was echoing to the hunter’s horn. * * * * * We have now brought our Remarks on the _Scenery of the Highlands_ to a close, and would fain have said a few words on the character and life of the people; but are precluded from even touching on that most interesting subject. It is impossible that the minds of travellers through those wonderful regions can be so occupied with the contemplation of mere inanimate nature, as not to give many a thought to their inhabitants, now and in the olden time. Indeed, without such thoughts, they would often seem to be but blank and barren wildernesses in which the heart would languish, and imagination itself recoil; but they cannot long be so looked at, for houseless as are many extensive tracts, and at times felt to be too dreary even for moods that for a while enjoyed the absence of all that might tell of human life, yet symptoms and traces of human life are noticeable to the instructed eye almost every where, and in them often lies the spell that charms us, even while we think that we are wholly delivered up to the influence of “dead insensate things.” None will visit the Highlands without having some knowledge of their history; and the changes that have long been taking place in the condition of the people will be affectingly recognised wherever they go, in spite even of what might have appeared the insuperable barriers of nature. PART FIRST. GENERAL HISTORY OF THE HIGHLANDS. CHAPTER I. B.C. 55--A.D. 446. Highlands defined--Ancient Scotland--Roman Transactions--Agricola --Caledonians--Contest at Loch Ore--Galgacus--Mons Grampius--Battle --Agricola superseded--Lollius Urbicus--Antonine’s Wall--Ulpius Marcellus--Severus--Constantius Chlorus--Picts--Scots--Attacots --Attack Roman Provinces--Romans abandon Britain--Influence of Romans--Roman Remains--Roads--Camps--Ardoch.