I —Wotes, chiefly Botanical, of a Visit to the Island of Coll. 
By Mr. Tuomas Scort. 
Not long before the Greenock Fair Holidays last year, as I was 
casting about for a place where I could conveniently spend a day 
or two, and perhaps have an opportunity of adding some specimens 
to my herbarium, a Greenock friend, who has a good deal of busi- 
ness intercourse with the Island of Coll, offered to procure for me 
a free passage there and back. Knowing that it lies rather out of 
the usual line of migration of botanists, while at the same time it 
formed a sort of Ultima Thule to myself, I gladly accepted the 
offer, and thus it was that I came to spend my holidays in Coll. 
I trust you will accord me your forbearance while I note a few 
particulars of my observations, chiefly as to its flora. 
The Island of Coll, which lies a few miles to the north-west of 
Mull, is about 14 miles long, by about an average breadth of 24 
miles, and is comparatively low-lying, its highest elevation not 
reaching 300 feet. Though forming one of the Inner Hebrides, 
it is, from its position, exposed to the full fury of the Atlantic 
* 
ee 
