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CHAPTER XVIIIMEMORABLE CAMPSIT was on the day on which we left Inverness onour march to the West that we came into thecomely valley of the Conon Water.I look backupon this district as a place apart. The otherfine neighbourhoods that we visited were all wellknown to us by name and by repute before wereached them. But I have a pleasant feelingthat we found the Conon Valley for ourselves.Its beautiful and kindly scenery, its great sweepingriver, its comfortable farms, and above allits unmatched inhabitants were ours by right ofdiscovery. That was indeed our Happy Valley,and if ever againI drive SIEGLINDA across theGrampians it is safe to say that one of my firstinducements will be to seek out again the friendsthat we left behind us there. For after crossingthe river below Contin and completing a day oftwenty-four miles, we dropped into the greatestcamp, all things considered, of all our longexperience. We might easily have driven on.151

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