ALPINE EXCURSIONS TO CAM CHREAG 

 AND BEINN DOIREANN. 



By E. Raymond Burden. 



During the Fair holidays of 1890 the Natural History Society of 

 Ghsgow agreed to join our own in a series of alpine excursions 

 which were accordingly undertaken under the conductorship of 

 Mr. P. Ewing. 



The centre of operations chosen was Tyndrum, which is on 

 account of the many advantages of its position, one of the most 

 durable and convenient possible for such work. A very small 

 village indeed, it has still several quite important features, and 

 has been noticed favourably or unfavourably by every traveller 

 who has made the tour of North Britain since touring became a 

 fashionable pastime. It stands on the western military way, which 

 ■ jomed at Crianlarich, a little to the east, by the road which 

 traverses Glen Falloch northward from the waterhead of Loch 

 Lomond. A few miles further west this road divides into two 

 branches, one arm stretching northward to Kingshouse and Glen- 

 coe, the other south-westward through Glenorchy to Inveraray 

 Due west the railway line leads to Oban, eastward to Callander,' 

 so that the little village is really a gateway to most of the fines 

 scenery m Scotland, though of itself it has been said that it is 

 remarkable only for the « surpassing irksomeness of its position » 

 and that no one would willingly go to Tyndrum a second time 

 nor remain there an hour." Happily our party did not share this 

 opinion. Doubtless it is, as Dorothy Wordsworth says, "a cold 

 spot, lying 700 feet above sea level, but it is in keeping with the 

 wild scenery of the district. There are no estates about it no 

 shaven lawns nor conventional pleasure grounds to « fritter away 

 the majesty of nature," and the surpassing irksomeness of its 



