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Mr Mackintosh of the comfortable inn of Bridge of 

 Roy suggested Loch Laggan for the first excursion 

 in case of rain : it involved little walking, and the road 

 was excellent. Starting in a light dogcart, the trav- 

 ellers had only gone a few miles when the clouds 

 vanished, the mists fled from the mountains, and in 

 driving in bright sunshine up through the romantic 

 Glen Spean, they felt as if transported into fairyland. 

 Branching off from the grand road of the Spean valley 

 was one to the right leading to Loch Treig, which 

 Prestwich was eager to visit. He had noted the mounds 

 of moraine crossing the valley through which the Treig 

 had cut a passage. An hour's halt at the lonely and 

 silent Loch Treig, treeless, and enclosed by high hills 

 literally covered with heather, enabled him to climb 

 the heights of its western shore, which he found glaci- 

 ated to 400 or 500 feet or more above the Loch. Re- 

 gaining the main road, he was absorbed in the drive 

 to Loch Laggan in observing all around the exhibition 

 of ice action. " On north side of Spean Valley, thence 

 to Moy, met with enormous accumulation of moraine 

 blocks, which became less and less mixed with gravel 

 in ascending, while the bare rocks everywhere showed 

 striation." They put up at a refreshment house, 

 originally built by Mr Ansdell, R.A., near which, feed- 

 ing on grassy knolls, were to be seen specimens of the 

 " ewie wi' the crookit horn," made familiar by his 

 paintings : a walk of a mile and the low bleak shore of 

 Loch Laggan was reached. The drive back to Roy 

 Bridge was taken leisurely. From time to time Pro- 

 fessor Prestwich alighted to measure the direction of 

 the strise on the rocks by the roadside. 



On August 14th, in glorious weather, the object of 

 the journey to Scotland was achieved, and a visit paid 



