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seriously on our entomological work the first day ; so we can 

 take our nets, and a few boxes, and have a short walk, with the 

 object of obtaining the bearings of the locality. This may be 

 best effected by ascending the hill on the north side of the 

 "town." If we return a little way down the road by which we 

 entered the town we shall see to our left the village school-house, 

 and just before reaching it is a path, which on our map is 

 denoted by a zigzag line. This path is very steep, but for the 

 view will be found worth the climb. It takes us to the top of 

 "Beinn a Chuallaich," a hill of 2925 feet elevation. This, 

 however, we must not attempt, but can bear over towards the 

 westward, when we can at no great altitude see nearly the whole 

 length of the great vale of Rannoch, including its Loch towards 

 the west, and the windings of the River Tummel to the east. 

 South-east, and immediately before us, is the mountain of the 

 district, with its curiously volcanic-looking cone. This is 

 Schiehallion, and is to be a great landmark in many future 

 wanderings. It is given as 3547 feet high, and ranks among the 

 higher mountains of Great Britain. It is also celebrated for 

 certain physical observations carried out upon its summit some 

 years ago, no less than the " weighing" of the world. 



Before us, in panorama, lie the mountain's sides south of 

 Rannoch, and on these all that most interests entomological 

 visitors is to be found. Somewhat west of the foot of Schiehallion 

 is the Innerhadden Burn, long one of the celebrated collecting- 

 grounds. In this article Innerhadden will be our eastern limit, 

 and we will carry our investigations westward as far as the head 

 of Loch Rannoch, in all some eighteen miles of country. All the 

 best entomological work in Rannoch has been done on the south 

 side of the lake ; and if we cast our eyes over towards the west- 

 ward one of the first things we note is a white cottage near the 

 lake- side, about a couple of miles along its shore. This used to 

 be Duncan Campbell's ; and there stayed Weaver and some of 

 the early collectors who visited this locality. Weaver had no 

 luxuries in those days, not even such as those of a train and 

 post- car ; for it is said that he wheeled his luggage in a barrow 

 from Perth to Rannoch, and settled in that cottage on his 

 first visit, when nearly everything which he caught was new. 

 Again, to the west, we see large birch woods ; these are those of 

 Carie, where the next important burn runs into the loch. 



