This is an excellent account, not savouring too much of
an advertisement, of a health-resort situated in the Highlands of Scotland, nearly twenty miles north-westward by rail from Inverness, sheltered by Ben Wyvvis, a mountain between 3,000 ft. and 4,000 ft. in height, and opening up on its eastern extremity on the sea-coast at Dingwall. The medicinal qualities of the waters which bubble up in this " green and fertile valley on the eastern verge of a wild and rocky hill country" (" Strathpeffer" means " the Strath of the Peffery "), were at one time known only to the inhabi- tants of the district surrounding it ; but latterly their praises have been sounded by more than one physician of note, and now Dr. Fox seeks to make it known to the English public generally as a by no means despicable rival to Bath, Buxton, and the Continental spas. Strathpeffer certainly possesses a comparatively mild though by no means enervating climate ; its rainfall is 28.91, which is almost identical with that of Tunbridge.
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