The Highland Inn Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER!. subject to a critick's marginall." Returns From Parnassus. The Doctor's Journal. I HAD passed Loch Achray without seeing one of the numero... more »us beauties of that romantic lake; for the rain, which had fallen in torrents, from the moment that my eye caught the first glimpse of Loch Venachar, was accompanied with an impenetrable cloud, shrouding the whole scene. It had just begun to ascend on the base of Ben Venue, and, like the rising of the curtain in a drama, was displaying the Tro- sachs, tinted by the mellow rays of the setting sun, whose broad disk, although still visible, yet, was beginning to dip behind the summit of the mountain. While I surveyed, with mute ecstacy, this scene, my servant, Dugald Mac- nab, rode close up to me, and touching, respectfully, my shoulder with the but-end of his whip, informed me that we were arrived at Ardken- okrochan, Stewart's Inn. This communication disturbed a train of pleasing reflections, intowhich the prospect now opening before me had led my imagination; but as I was desirous of pursuing my musings, I dismounted with as little consciousness of the effort as possible, and was standing, with my chin resting between the thumb and the fore-finger of my right hand, gazing upon a magnificent rainbow, formed in the last partial droppings of the dispersing cloud, when the salutation—"Hah! is it possible? —can it be the Doctor?—By Gad, it is! Hah! Dr. Mac Alpin, is this you?" completely dissolved my reverie. On turning round to observe who thus accosted me, I was surprised, and certainly not displeased, to behold my old friend Colonel Standard, from whom I had parted, on the Bluff of Savannah, in North America, in the year 1805. The workings of Time in the figure and on the physiognomy of my friend were sufficient to have d...« less