

REPORT OF A VISIT TO SANDA AND GLUNIMORE. 197 
Report of a Visit to Sanda and Glunimore. 
By Joun Paterson and JoHN RENWICK. 
[Read 28th 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 [Pl]. IIT.] 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, 13 mile S.S.E. of the nearest part of the peninsula of 
Kintyre . . . and has an utmost length and breadth of 1} 
and 3 mile” (Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, Vol. VI. Edin., 
1885), 
