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foot, through Glen Scaftigall. He will be delighted with the wild 

 scenery, and will notice many objects of geological interest. 



The terraces already noticed (Art. 58) at the mouth of the lorsa, 

 in front of the Duke of Hamilton's shooting lodge, are very striking 

 by far the most remarkable in Arran. 



There is no hotel in this part of the island, but very comfortable 

 quarters can be had at a farm-house in the hamlet of 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 

 waterfoot to Tormore and King's Cove. 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 exists throughout the whole of Glen lorsa. From 

 lorsa waterfoot the coast section presents first old red sandstone 

 and conglomerate, and then carboniferous sandstones, but no junc- 

 tion is visible of the slate with the Old Red. We observed scratched 

 boulders about Auchincar. 



94. A walk across the interior of the granite nucleus, from Loch 

 Banza to lorsa waterfoot, will be good work for a long summer 

 day ; or the geologist may return from Auchincar to Loch Ranza by 

 this route. We preferred the former, diverging westwards at the 

 base of Ben-Varen, ascending that mountain, and descending upon 

 Imochair, to reach Dugarry by the coast road.* In this way we 

 can visit the Tornidneon junction, pass up Glen Eis-na-vearraid, 

 by the burn, fully examine the two granites, visit the lakes (Art. 43, 

 p. 62), trace the dikes in the fine-grained granite (Art. 46), inspect 

 the great beds of china clay under Ben-Varen, to the N.W. of the 

 head of Loch Tanna, and either mount to the summit of Ben-Varen, 

 or pass on southwards by the base of Sal-halmidel to the mouth of 

 the lorsa. The botany of this part is meagre, but objects of geolo- 

 gical interest will be met with, allusion to which now would be 

 mere repetition of what has been already stated. 



95. The inland route from Loch Eanza to Corrie presents a few 

 objects of interest. A walk of three miles by the high road, which 

 winds screw-like along the hill-sides, by the edges of the deep glens, 

 brings us to the summit of Glen Chalmidel, and the watershed into 

 north Glen Sannox. The views of the northern front of the ridge of 

 the Castles and the Sui are very grand from this point. A few 

 hundred yards below the summit, as we pass down into Glen Bhu, 

 granite appears by the road-side; and in the river bed, a little farther, 



* By previous concert with friends at Brodick, a vehicle may be in waiting at 

 Dugarry. Yery welcome it will be after so long a march. 



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