16 Notes on the Natural History of Lochfynehead. (Sess. 
through heather and peat bogs, but it well repays one for 
all the fatigue undergone. On the way the eye is frequently 
delighted with the sight of some of the rarer saxifrages 
and gentians, cudweeds, and cow-wheats blooming among 
the bogs and by the mountain side. The walk up Glenfyne 
is also charming and interesting. On either side tower lofty 
peaks, with precipitous ravines, and wild and lonely corries, 
where the eagle builds her nest, and which gives to the 
scenery a wildness and beauty difficult to surpass. At 
the shooting-lodge, a few miles up the river Fyne, her 
Majesty rested in 1875, and the chair on which she sat 
is ornamented with a brass plate to commemorate the date 
of the royal visit. Perhaps grander and more interesting is 
the round by Glenkinglas and back by Hell’s Glen and 
Tomdubh. From several points on the route the views are 
fine and extensive, but the grandest and most impressive 
is that from “ Rest and be Thankful,’ at the head of Glen 
Crow, which Wordsworth thought worthy of a_ sonnet, 
beginning with the lines— 
“ Doubling and doubling with laborious walk, 
Who that has gained at length the wished-for height, 
This brief, this simple wayside call can slight, 
And rests not thankful ?” 
The ground at many places on the journey is covered 
with an undergrowth of ling and heath, largely interspersed 
with the blaeberry, crowberry, and cowberry plants. Higher 
up the heath-clad hillsides, and sometimes carpeting the 
eround underneath the heather, is the trailing clubmoss, 
whose powdery seeds, from their inflammable nature, have 
been employed on the stage to produce artificial lightning, 
and are used by apothecaries for coating pills. In a tarn 
by the ascending path the pale lilac racemes of the water 
lobelia bloom in great profusion. Among the many walks 
in the neighbourhood, none is more interesting or more 
enjoyable, the beauty of the route being due chiefly to the 
wildness of the surrounding scenery. 
Lochfyne fishermen, who occasionally visit the head of 
the loch during the fishing season, say that it is the dullest 
and quietest part of all Scotland. Still, it has its attractions. 
It is a thorough change from city life. No excursionists 
