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bay takes up nearly two of these. A boat may be taken to 

 the Brodick pier opposite, the Rosa burn may be crossed by 

 a rustic bridge, but the sands will prove not a short route, 

 and the river is usually impassable. We shall pass round by 

 the public road. The Cloy burn formerly entered the sea at 

 the lower village, as the name Invercloy implies ; that course 

 was changed by a bar of sand cast up during a storm, and the 

 stream has now for a long time followed the winding course 

 which unites it with the Rosa burn before reaching the sea. 

 The ridge of gravel and sand dividing the beach from the 

 marsh behind is the joint work of the sea and the two 

 streams. This marsh, and parts of the gravel ridge which 

 nourish coarse brushwood, are the favourite resort of many 

 plants as the Isle of Man cabbage, the sea purslane, the sea 

 pink, catchfly or sea campion, the scurvy grass, arrow grass, 

 two plantains, and many others. 



Brodick church, on the platform finely overlooking the 

 plain, was formerly a chapel-of-ease to Lamlash church ; 

 but Brodick is now erected into a separate parish, in so far 

 at least as quoad sacra, purposes are concerned. For secular 

 purposes, the old division into two parishes still subsists. 

 That division was made in a singular way : the western half 

 of the island, from Loch Ranza to Largiebeg, formed Kilmorie 

 parish, the eastern half Kilbride parish, the boundary line 

 running along the crest of the dividing ridge of the island. 

 The north part of Kilbride parish forms the new parish of 

 Brodick, which extends northwards from the top of the 

 ridge between the bays of Lamlash and Brodick. This 

 division was made in 1864, and an endowment provided, 

 jointly by the late Duke of Hamilton and the Endowment 

 Committee of the Established Church. 



Passing eastwards from the Rosa bridge, and then north 

 towards Brodick pier, and emerging from the belt of plant- 

 ing, we are on the site of the old village of Brodick, and 

 obtain one of the sweetest views in the island. The lower 

 reach of Glen Rosa, with its grand background of mountains, 



