a shilling, and she begged snuff; for snuff is the luxury of a Highland
cottage.

Soon afterwards we came to the General's Hut, so called because it was
the temporary abode of Wade, while he superintended the works upon the
road. It is now a house of entertainment for passengers, and we found it
not ill stocked with provisions.




FALL OF FIERS


Towards evening we crossed, by a bridge, the river which makes the
celebrated fall of Fiers. The country at the bridge strikes the
imagination with all the gloom and grandeur of Siberian solitude. The
way makes a flexure, and the mountains, covered with trees, rise at once
on the left hand and in the front. We desired our guides to shew us the
fall, and dismounting, clambered over very rugged crags, till I began to
wish that our curiosity might have been gratified with less trouble and
danger. We came at last to a place where we could overlook the river,
and saw a channel torn, as it seems, through black piles of stone, by
which the stream is obstructed and broken, till it comes to a very steep
descent, of such dreadful depth, that we were naturally inclined to turn
aside our eyes.

But we visited the place at an unseasonable time, and found it divested
of its dignity and terror. Nature never gives every thing at once. A
long continuance of dry weather, which made the rest of the way easy and