There are two Dees in Scotland—the Galloway Dee in the south-west, and the Aberdeenshire Dee in the north-east. Ours is the northern Dee, the largest and the most interesting. The sources of the Dee are in many respects more remarkable than those of any other British river; but they are accessible only by toil and labour which few tourists are willing to encounter; although drovers and other travellers from the south to the north of Scotland often ascend Glendee and pass by Altdrui into Speyside. The mountains of Glendee are undoubtedly the highest and the most remarkable in the island; yet the guide-books either leave them “out of the Highlands" or pass them over in a few lines that tell one truth at least, namely, that the writers never have been there. A graphic description of Glendee is quoted in several guide-books—in the Gazetteer published by the Messrs. Blackie, and in other works—from an early nun of “Chambers’ Journal.” It has been often republished, is considered the standard account of the matter, and therefore we insert it here in order to correct a very large “oversight:”—

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