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| GLEN ROY | [continued from page 159a] "Nothing indeed, that I have seen in nature or art is so striking. There is a magnificence, a grandeur of apparent effort in them, which excites more than wonder - incredulity; and we looK again and again, as if there was some deception as if that which is before us could not be. The impression, in fact, is that of art, because nature produces nothing similar; yet we contemplate it as impossible art. Nature deals not in mathematical lines and forms; and thus, even though we Know that it is her worKs that are here before us, we cannot shaKe off the impression that we are contemplating the worK of man, and still that it is a worK, of which the gigantic dimensions and bold features exceed mortal power. The more calm impression is, that these terraces, so strongly marKed, drawn with such mathematical exactness and truth, So regular in the midst of irreqularity, so unliKe every line by which they are surrounded, and to every form on which they seem to rest, are not in the landscape. It is as if they lay between our eye and the hills, as if they were drawn in the air, or as if they were the transverse wires of a telescope through which we are contemplating the scene before us". The vertical distance from the lowest to the second "road" is 212 feet; from the second to the uppermost, the height is 82 feet; and these distances, being invariably preserved where ever the "roads" occur, produce that parallelism from which the derive their names. It is only at the lower part of the glen, however, that all the three are seen; for as the bottom of the valley ascends, the first and Second Successively disappear, and the uppermost alone continues to be traced to its remote extremity. This last terrace is 600 feet above the bottom of the lower part of the glen and 644 feet above the level of the junction of the Roy with the Spean, and 1266 above the level of the Sea at the mouth of the Spey. [continued on page 160a] |
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