FIRST DAY. 
Tuesday, 7th August. 
ROTHIEMURCHUS, GLENMORE, AND ABERNETHY. 
The company assembled soon after 4 o’clock on Tuesday 
morning on the platform of the Waverley Station, Edinburgh, in 
order to proceed by the North British train at 4.28 a.m. for 
Perth. The route was vd the Forth Bridge and Glenfarg. Both 
formed objects of much interest, the former as being one of the 
greatest monuments of engineering skill and national resource ; 
the latter as being one of the items in the programme of the 
Excursion held in 1892. Numerous other bits of typical Scottish 
scenery were passed on the way, and contributed in a pleasing 
manner to relieve the otherwise tedious character of a railway 
journey at so early an hour. 
Perth was reached at 5.33 a.m., and here a short interval of 
half-an-hour was allowed to enable the party to breakfast in the 
Station Hotel, prior to resuming the journey to Aviemore vid the 
Highland Railway. After breakfast, a start was made at 6.10 
A.M., and soon a foretaste was had of the rich store of arboreal 
interest held in reserve for the day’s examination. Each moment 
revealed new attractions characterised by features peculiar to 
themselves, and calculated in the highest degree to satisfy the 
appetites of the visitors, whetted by the none too extravagant 
accounts of the varied and superb picturesqueness of the country 
through which the route lay. 
About two miles after leaving Perth, Scone Palace was seen on 
the right, beautifully embosomed in a richly wooded landscape on 
the north bank of the river Tay. For some miles the railway 
ran through portions of the Earl of Mansfield’s Scone estates, so 
well known among foresters for their extensive woodlands, and the 
celebrity they have attained as examples of good forestry. A 
notable object seen on the left, soon after Stanley Station was 
passed, was the Taymount plantation of Douglas Fir formed by 
the late Mr M‘Corquodale, forester on the Scone estates; and 
recently added to by his successor Mr Lewis Bayne; both old 
and young trees looking the picture of good health, A little 
farther on, the route ran for several miles through the richly 
wocded Murthly estates of W. S. Fotheringham, Esq., which were 
visited by the Society in 1892, and are famed for their wealth in 
