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busy place this day, with its vortex of tourists disem- 

 barking from the Columbcts capacious decks, and em- 

 barking for the journey up the Kyles of Bute and 

 onwards to Greenock and beyond. Tarbert you can 

 see in your mind's eye, fussy and busy ; and you can 

 picture the Gaels on the Oban pier, pointing with 

 their fingers, as if they all exhibited some maledictory 

 frame of mind, to secure engagements for carriage of 

 baggage from steamer to town. Inverary, too, will 



Fig. 10 Crinoid. 



not be behind in its bustle and stir when the Lord of 

 the Isles comes alongside the pier ; and little Strachur 

 itself can put on a very respectable air of importance 

 when from the steamer the tourists pour forth to 

 coach it overland. 



Other scenes, too, you can picture for yourself, as 

 the steamers pass by in quick succession. The white- 

 funnelled Ivanhoe is off on her Arran trip, and the 

 less ambitious Eagle will creep along the Bute coast, 



