COUNTRY LIFE
The Quality of Galloway Some of the very loveliest and most interesting scenery in Scot- land is found in Galloway and the Southern Highlands, which have never enjoyed the full reputation that the country deserves. There is every quality that is demanded of landscape ; high hills full of colour, and of wild life ; winding rivers full of fish, and, within the last few months, of power. They provide here and there such cataracts as haunted Wordsworth " like a passion." The sheep on the foothills, where the bell-heather gives place to more and more grass, come to the edge of what is now called a " humanised landscape " of high production and no little charm. That smallest of royal boroughs, New Galloway, his not all the architectural qualities of a Chipping Campden, but the houses are fitly coloured to the landscape and are desirable and richly embowered in both trees and roses ; yet it is said by eminent archaeologists that ever since the first Roman road to the north was built this district has been passed by and largely unregarded by visitors from the south.
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