RECORDS: OF EXCURSIONS IN 
DUMBARTONSHIRE. 
By Joun R. LEE. 
THE county of Dumbarton presents a pleasing diversity of 
surface features—shady glens with picturesque cascades and 
murmuring streams, wild and lonely stretches of moorland, 
carpeted with every variety of grass and heather, winsome 
glimpses of river, loch, and mountain scenery, and sometimes all 
these in combination. This variety of scenery is due in part to 
the geological nature of the district. The great Highland fault 
crosses the county from behind Rosneath to a little below Luss, 
thus dividing off a portion to the north, in which the schistose 
rocks of the highlands are in evidence ; whilst the more extensive 
lowland portion includes large areas of hill country where the 
peculiar features of the trap rocks of Carboniferous age are very 
marked. 
The fauna and flora of the county consequently possess 
considerable attractiveness, and the numerous excursions of the 
Society to various points within its boundaries have generally 
been of an interesting nature. In the present account of these 
excursions the county is, for the sake of clearness, divided into 
eight sections, and the excursions in each of these are separately 
referred to. 
I.—CUMBERNAULD DISTRICT. 
The detached portion of the county extending from Lenzie on 
the west to Castlecary on the east, has been visited by the Society 
on five occasions, viz.—13th June and 22nd August, 1891, 29th 
April, 1893, roth October, 1903, and 3rd September, 1904. On 
the first three occasions Castlecary was made the objective, the 
road from Dullatur being traversed on the third of these. A 
full account of these three excursions is incorporated in the 
Records of Excursions in Stirlingshire, which appeared in Vol. II. 
(pp. 129-131). 
