Light Clouds over Glen Croe. Scotland
by Jenny Rainbow
Title
Light Clouds over Glen Croe. Scotland
Artist
Jenny Rainbow
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Photograph - Photography
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Mountains scenery with Glen Croe in the autumn time at the place called Rest and be Thankful, Scotland.
In 1784 a French scientist Barthelemy Faujas de St Fond, travelled to Scotland, attracted by the remarkable geological formations of Fingal�s Cave in Staffa. His route up Loch Lomond-side, which delighted in, but he soon left these �flowery and verdant� shores and the ascent to the Rest. I soon found a contrast to the delightful scenes we left. They were succeeded by deserts and dismal heaths. We entered a narrow pass between two chains of high mountains, which appear to have, at a very remote period, formed only one ridge, but which some terrible revolution has torn asunder through-out its length. �This defile is so narrow, and the mountains so high and steep, that the rays of the sun can scarcely reach the place and be seen for the space of an hour in the twenty four. For more than ten miles, which is the length of the pass, there is neither house nor cottage, nor living creature except a few fish in a small lake, about half way�.
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