KEPOKT OF A VISIT TO SAXDA AND GLUNIMORE. 197 



Report of a Visit to Sanda and Glunimore. 



By John Paterson and John Renwick. 



[Read 28tli June, 1898.] 



On several occasions small parties representing this Society have 

 been the guests of one of our members, Mr. Andrew Bain, in his 

 yacht, the s.s. '•' Romany," and have had the advantage of visiting 

 places which are not easily got at, unless by means such as those 

 which Mr. Bain has kindly placed at our command. Sanda, as a 

 place which has never been reported upon at any length in its 

 natural history aspects, has claimed our attention in the present 

 year, and this report refers to a visit to that island and the 

 interesting knuckle of conglomerate, Glunimore (literally '* The 

 Big Knee"), which lies to the north-east of it. On the morning of 

 the 2nd of June we slipped down from Campbeltown, but when 

 clear of the land, as we approached Sanda in a N.W. gale, it 

 became a little doubtful if it would be practicable to land, and, 

 as we had been disappointed in our intention of visiting Ailsa 

 Craig on the previous day, we were not unprepared for the worst* 

 However, in a bay behind the lighthouse we got a good anchorage 

 and some shelter, and our party were quickly ashore. Sanda is not 

 an island distinguished in any way in its physical features, unless 

 the natural arch [PI. III.] near the lighthouse can be held to justify 

 the claim. It is only a " green isle of the sea " like many others 

 around our coasts. From its resemblance to an upturned spoon, 

 the people in the south of Arran call it ''An Spang'' or "The 

 Spoon." " It lies at the west side of the entrance of the Firth of 

 Clyde, 1| mile S.S.E. of the nearest part of the peninsula of 

 Kintyre . . . and has an utmost length and breadth of 1^ 

 and f mile" {Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, Yol. YI. Edin., 

 1885). 



