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160 CARAVAN DAYSvery long going West, but the surface becameloose and gravelly and we had two difficultencounterswith motors in narrow places. Atthe top we came upon the noble view downGlen Docherty. Freely do I give it pride ofplace along with the Queen's View above LochTummel and that of the Kyle of Tongue. Thereare plenty of views amongour memories thatjostle each other for inclusion in the secondrank. But these three occupy the first. LochMaree, misty and seductive in the tempered sunlight,wandered away into the dim distance, themany islands showing up sharp against the silverybackground, and the commandingoutline ofSlioch rising sheer out of the water on the right.No Highland view can take first rank without areally good mountain in it, but Slioch is overpoweringand precipitous.Indeed there is no loch that we have seen likeLoch Maree.remote.It is not wholly wild and lonely andThe grandeur of the Northern side is inmost happy contrast to the gentle beauty of thebirch-woods and the mossy glens that alternatewith the heather to the South, and the woodedislands scattered everywhere would seem, in thiscontest of two types of Highland beauty, tothrow in their lot with the Southern side.