PHYSICAL FEATURES. 3 



concavity of this arch-like ridge on the east, is an assem- 

 blage of closely-connected mountains dependent upon Goat- 

 fell. The most northerly summit is the lofty conical peak of 

 Cioch-na-h'oighe (Kioch-na-oiche), or the Maiden's Breast, 

 guarding the south-east angle of Glen Saunox; on the south 

 the group terminates in the bold precipice called Gleu- 

 Shant rock, at the entrance of Glen Rosa. Both groups 

 front the interior glens in tremendous precipices, while they 

 descend with less abruptness to Glen lorsa on one side, and 

 the sea on the other. To the west of the geographical axis 

 of the island lies the Ben-Bharrain range, with some con- 

 nected and lower heights east of it, the entire group being 

 separated from the other mountains by Glen lorsa and Glen 

 Eas-an-Bhiorach (e-as), running respectively S.S.W. and 

 N.N.W. through the length of this half of the island. These 

 glens have a common watershed in Loch-an-Davie, a small 

 mountain lake or tarn, which, when it stands at a high level, 

 as in winter and in wet summers, discharges its waters at both 

 ends. The volume of water discharged into Glen lorsa is 

 indeed greater than that flowing out into the north glen; yet 

 the origin of this latter, and its outlines towards the top, are, 

 as plainly as in the case of lorsa, due to the action of the 

 little stream it is, in fact, towards the lake as a centre that 

 the slopes of both glens manifestly converge. The existence 

 of the double discharge has indeed been called in question. 

 We have, however, observed it ourselves on several visits, 

 repeated after a considerable interval, in the months ranging 

 from April till October ; and it is now laid down as a recog- 

 nized feature 1 of the district on the maps of the Ordnance 

 Survey, published since the issue of our previous edition. 

 This singular geographical arrangement, said to be exhibited 

 on a grand scale by some lakes in Canada and Norway, is 

 repeated to the south-west of Ben-Bhreac (vre-ac), the high hill 

 which overhangs the west side of Loch-an-Davie. Here a rill, 

 coming down from the hill-side, on reaching a wide hollow, 

 which connects a branch of Glen Catacol to a branch of Glen 



