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EXCURSION XIII. 



GLEN SANNOX AND GLEN KOSA. 



74. THIS is a favourite excursion with visitors to Arran ; 

 many will devote a day to it in preference to others which 

 are less easily taken from Brodick as a centre. But there 

 are comparatively few objects of geological interest, and we 

 shall not therefore enter into any detailed description. 



There is an interesting old cemetery at the entrance of 

 Glen Sannox. It is all that remains of a chapel dependent 

 on Kilbride church, and dedicated to St. Michael. A rude 

 image of the saint is to be seen upon a stone built into the 

 outside of the wall. The house was probably connected with 

 the Abbey of Kilwinning, to which Sir John Monteith, Lord 

 of Arran, granted, in 1357, the lands of Sannox and patron- 

 age of the churches. The barytes mill, which till lately 

 marred the solitary grandeur of the scene which opens as we 

 reach the plateau at the mouth of the glen, was entirely re- 

 moved several years ago by order of the late Duke of Hamil- 

 ton. It was erected here to grind the sulphate of barytes, 

 or heavy spar, raised from veins which traverse the old red 

 sandstone. These are seen in the bed of the stream, running 

 in a direction nearly N.E. and S.W., and dipping variously; 

 they appear also on the hill-side southward. The junction in 

 this burn is not well seen, but interesting junctions occur 

 under the base of Cioch-na-h'oighe. By the bank of this fine 

 stream of crystal water, rushing over its bed of granite sheets 

 and granite sand, amid huge rolled masses of the rock, is a 

 delightful walk. Near the head of the glen we may diverge 

 a little to the right, and examine, at this lower level, the 

 dike and great chasm descending from Ceim-na-Cailliach. 

 Following it southward on its line of bearing we trace it 



