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Of our own achievements among these great mountains we 

 have little — nay, almost nothing — to say. We are indeed as the 

 dumb ; not that the spirit was not willing, but, alas ! the flesh was 

 weak, and in the days when we were better able to climb, our 

 footsteps, our knowledge, and our inclinations led us into other 

 * waste-places ' of great Scotland. On one occasion, many years ago, 

 we attempted on two successive days to ascend Ben Muich Dhui 



LOCH COIRE AN LOCHAN. 24th June 1892. 



from Glen Derry (Dee), but both times were turned by dense 

 mists. We went for a specific purpose — to search for the nest of 

 the Snow Bunting; on such days as these were, one might as lief 



Eunach (nearly 3000 feet) draining into Spey, by the bed of the river Druie, 

 and Lochan Bhuidhe, which drains into Spey by the river Avon. 



Mr. Alexander Inkson M'Connochie, the energetic secretary of the Cairngorm 

 Club, found bright red berries — the l)ear-berry — during a visit paid to Mam 

 Suim, Cairngorm, on 29th February 1S93, showing the same preservative pro- 

 cess which in Arctic regions preserves the cranberries and other ground-fruits 

 under the warm snow. 



