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Auchincar, a short distance east of the lodge. The tourist 

 can then easily find his way to Brodick, or he may pass along 

 the shore by Mauchrie water-foot to Tormore and King's 

 Cove. From Dougrie to the Tormore pitchstones, or to the 

 Tormore Stone Circles, is a good hour's walk. Ben-Bharrain 

 appears to best advantage on this walk ; and we often pause 

 upon our way to turn round and gaze on its stupendous mass, 

 and to wonder how it came there. A quarter of a mile from 

 the shore there is a wooden footpath across the Mauchrie. 

 About half a mile from the sea, between the farm houses of 

 Mauchrie and Tormore, carboniferous limestone, with pro- 

 ducti and encrinal stems, occurs as a bed in the sandstone of 

 Mauchrie water, and is very similar to the Come beds; and, 

 like them, the limestone is not far from the base of the series. 

 In Mauchrie burn, close to Mauchrie farm house, the Old 

 Red beds are seen ; but no precise line can be laid down for 

 the boundary. Glen lorsa opens on this part of the coast ; 

 and here the number of granite boulders greatly increases 

 the proportion being now in favour of the fine-grained 

 variety, which spreads widely over this glen, and reaches to 

 a great height on both sides of it. From lorsa water-foot the 

 coast section presents first old red sandstone and conglom- 

 erate, and then carboniferous sandstones. We observed 

 scratched boulders about Auchiucar, and masses of old red 

 sandstone, which in this situation are not travelled, also 

 striated. 



