LOCH MAREE AND WEST ROSS. 65 
Loch Maree lies almost in the centre of West Ross, and 
10 miles west of Achnasheen station on the Strome Ferry 
line. 
At Achnasheen very remarkable terraces may be noticed. 
Achnasheen is not, strictly speaking, in West Ross, being on 
the east side of the watershed; but as the terraces referred 
to are typical, and on a much larger scale than those of 
the same general nature near Kenlochewe, they may be 
referred to here. 
Achnasheen Terraces—The terraces occur where two 
valleys meet, and they extend for a short distance up both. 
One terrace is nearly three-quarters of a mile in length, and 
about 60 feet in height. They probably date from the later 
part of the Glacial Period, and represent the deposits found in 
ice-dammed lochs. 
Mr W. C. Lucy, F.G.5., described these terraces in 1883. 
They are covered with peat varying from 2 to 8 feet in 
thickness, in which are large roots of trees. Mr Lucy says 
of these :—‘“ Mr Mackenzie of Achnasheen showed me four 
stages of growth; 2 feet below the surface he found 
a large fir stock with traces of fire upon it, and, on raising 
it, there was found under it a still larger one, not charred. 
When that was removed, a third was discovered; and below 
that again a fourth was seen.” 
These terraces are treeless now. The thickness of the 
peat testifies to the long period that must have elapsed since 
these rock features were formed. The chief evidence of their 
age, however, is to be found in the internal structure. A 
section exposed by the undermining action of the stream on 
the Loch Rosque terrace shows the contorted bedding—over- 
laid by 4 or 5 feet of more regular layers of sandy gravel— 
and the peat, which is of practically the same thickness 
on the sloping sides as on the top, proves the present outline 
to be almost as ancient as the terraces themselves. 
Soon after leaving Achnasheen for Loch Maree, the 
white peaks of Ben Eay attract the attention; and the 
grandeur of the scene, when the watershed is crossed at 
an elevation of 850 feet and Loch Maree comes into view, is, 
in my opinion, nowhere surpassed in Scotland, 
At Kenlochewe, at the foot of Glen Docherty, there is 
