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To Mr J. Grant Thomson the Excursionists were specially 
indebted for the great trouble he had taken in carefully arranging 
every detail of the two days’ programme in the Forests of Strath- 
spey. By his skilful arrangements and directions each day, the 
party reached the halting-places at the appointed minute, and the 
day’s work was accomplished with an ease and exactitude never 
before equalled. The programme for this day, as drawn up by 
Mr Thomson, and carried out to the letter, was as follows :— 
Fiest Day IN STRATHSPEY FORESTS. 
Miles from ; 
; . r aa | Time of : 
aviomore | Names of Places. Sparel Remarks, 
erento wire. Arrive at Aviemore. Refreshments. Start 
in carriages for the Forests. 
ee Island, Ruined Castle. Osprey’s nest 
OL ‘al ae p y n ® 
2% )) Loch-an-Hileiny | 10 Je lil Echo. Fine scenery. Old Scots Firs. 
Entrance to Glenmore Forest. Glenmore 
94 | Loch Moirlich, | 12.30 ,, Lodge. Picturesque Loch in midst of 
Forest. 
124 |Cobbler’s Rock, | 1.30 p.M.| View of Aviemore and Strathspey Woods. 
Highland Luncheon in the Forest, on the 
, 5) 
17 Loch Garten, .| 2.30. ,, { shore of Loch Garten. 
20 Morehill: siocah. |) 4230: 55 Fine view of Strathspey Woodlands. 
Drive through the old Natural Forest of 
Dil INarseryy. = | see! 5s Abernethy. Grand Scots Firs. Estate 
Nurseries. 
30 Broomhill, . . Jeeae Train, vié Forres, for Elgin. 
Soon after leaving Aviemore, the carriages halted at the 
schoolhouse at Inverdruie, where, by prior arrangement, fight 
refreshments were served to the company. Starting again on 
their drive to Loch-an-Hilein, the road lay through a district 
of most enchanting scenery. Stretching for miles in every 
direction, the eye wandered over vast breadths of Scots pine 
forests, diversified here and there by glades of enticing beauty or 
tracts of arable land, while fringing the horizon by the outlines 
of their massive ridges stood in solemn grandeur the higher 
peaks of the Cairngorm range and other groups of the Grampian 
mountains. On the right was passed ‘‘The Doune,” the home 
of the Grants of Rothiemurchus, the castellated towers of which 
were seen above the tops of the embosoming trees amid rich wood- 
lands. The policies are widely famed for their beauty and the 
luxuriance of tree-growth, especially of the coniferous family, 
