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the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy. 25 
stands west of the entrance to Glen Roy. The public path up 
Glen Roy runs along the side of this Bohuntine Hill, until you 
get a good view up the glen and see the three “ parallel roads.” 
There they are at a much higher level than yourself on every 
mountain-side, ranning into every recess, and everywhere parallel, 
while yet following every sinuosity of the mountain-sides. Now 
let us climb up this Bohuntine Hill, and see what they look like 
from there. ‘The side is steep; the soil is soft, easily breaking 
GLEN ROY 
LOOKING NORTH 
Fic. 2.—A sketch-view looking up Glen Roy, showing the general appear- 
ance of the ‘parallel roads”’ upon the hill-sides as seen from the much lower 
level of the public path running up the glen. 
away, and consists, under a few inches of peat, of a gritty clay 
full of angular stones of all sizes from your fist downwards, 
though there are some boulders larger than your head; no 
Shells; no fossils. It is very likely soaking with moisture, and 
barely held together by the heather and grass with ferns and 
mosses which are growing on it. Now, although these “roads” 
are strikingly distinct when seen from a distance with a favourable 
_ light, you will be surprised to find how vague and inconspicuous 
they are when you are actually on them; in fact, it is quite easy 
to walk right over a “road” without noticing it, and then, on 
