
REPORT OF A VISIT TO SANDA AND GLUNIMORE. 203 
up in front of the ruins of the old chapel. The little burial-place 
occupies part of the ridge, the last named being breached to the 
west of the chapel by a small stream. The sand is nearly all 
covered with vegetation, and its tendency to further encroach- 
ment is thus checked. 
Quite possibly it is to this sand-covered shore that the name of 
the island is due. Sanda Roads, of which the bay is the inner 
portion, was a favourite resort of the Norsemen seven to ten 
centuries ago; and this island is quite likely to have been dis- 
tinguished by them as the Sand-ey, sand island, just as that at 
the south end of Arran was called, from its flatness, Fladda, flat 
island, altered by the Gael into Pladda. In the Orkneys there is 
a Sanday, sand island; and in the Hebrides Fladda still retains 
its proper Norse spelling. In Arran the sandy shores of the bay 
to the north of Corrie gave rise to the name Sannox = Sand vik, 
sand bay. Another name for Sanda is Sanderey, which may 
mean Sand eyrr ey, Sand beach island, similar to Zrland in Orkney 
and Jreland in Shetland, both meaning beach island, land being 
the Norse name for a large island. 
PLANTS.—The subjoined list is, we believe, very incomplete, 
as the time at our disposal on shore was limited. The flora 
presented no unlooked-for features, but we were pleased to see 
Juniper, which we do not recall having seen on Ailsa Craig, while 
the abundance of the Sea Spleenwort and the luxuriance of 
individual plants of this fern we have never seen equalled— 
Ranunculus repens, Linn. Cerastium glomeratum, 
R. bulbosus, Linn. Thuillier. 
R. Ficaria, Linn. C. triviale, Link. 
Cardamine pratensis, Linn. Sagina procumbens, Linn, 
CO. hirsuta, Linn. *Sperguiaria marina, Leb. 
Cochlearia officinalis, Linn. Geranium molle, Linn. 
Viola sylvatica, Fries. G. Robertianum, Linn. 
Polygala vulgaris, Linn. Erodium cicutarium, L’ Hérit. 
Silene inflata, Sm. Ulex ewropeus, Linn. . 
S. maritima, With. Trifolium repens, Linn, 
Lychnis diurna, Sibth. T. procumbens, Linn. 
“On Glunimore. 
