vii.] MARRIED LIL<E. 187 



Laving been eleven hours incessantly on foot ; so perhaps 

 I was not very sorry to see rain this morning, to give me 

 a good excuse for staying at home. I have so very many 

 geological notes and specimens to arrange that I have 

 al mndant occupation/ 



TORT WILLIAM, J/,/y 29*7*, 1848. 



"... I wrote at once to Mr. Robertson, enclosing Mrs. 

 Batten's letter, telling him that I should leave this for 

 Dmmnadrochit on Saturday, that I should spend Sunday 

 in Strathglass, and wished to reach Kintail by Tuesday 

 'h the Skye steamer going north on Wednes- 

 day morning. He will thus have time to give notice 



ie people up the Glen, &c. 



' I mentioned in my last that your letter to McGregor 

 had been most useful. I completed the circuit of Ben 

 is successfully in three days. There is typhus fever 

 at Kinloch-Leven. Mr. Milner was from home, so that 

 I did not go down there, but contented myself 

 with a bird's-eye view and scramble over the hill to 

 L-K-h Eilt, where, if I had not all the comforts in the 

 world, 1 had a truly kind reception from Oliver, the 

 per; got a view next day from Scuir Eilt and 

 down the Glen to the head of Loch Treig ; slept at 

 Inverlair (Mr. Walker's). A letter from McGregor pro- 

 d me comforts and lnxuri >, but 1 was rather 

 knocked u}), and rode and drove into Fort William next 

 day, n<>r did I feel well enough to deliver your Idler to 

 I have since been \\\> lien Xevis. and 

 should have been on the lien to-day; but though yester- 

 day Magnificent', ju>t because it was Sunday, it 

 came on to rain in the night d la mode tin y >"//*, and is 

 drizzling 



' IWniKK, June 1 Wi. 1848, 



. . I can assure you Mr. lloberlson did not belie 



the r you had <ji\ <-n him. He paid all honour 



i kind introduction. I spent part of 



y and all Sunday \\\-\ at his hospitable hoii.-e, 



going to church ;i | Kivhle.-^ < 'hapel. A \.r\ \\t-t Sunday 



mid I \, tied Mate of mind to go 



