1891. 
Sept 3.
Scotland.
Stronochlachar to Oban. - Fine and warm, cloud
shadows alternating with sunshine. No rain until
late in P.M. when there was a brief but heavy shower.
  Rowing on Loch Katrine for nearly two hours
in the forenoon. A fresh, somewhat gusty wind
the lights and shadows on the mountains
constantly changing producing the most
beautiful effects. The shores are wooded in
many places with birches, oaks and Scotch pines
all small trees growing rather closely together.
One little grove was composed wholly of pines
the ground beneath carpeted with needles and
wholly free from moss or ferns, a rare thing
in this country. There were also many
mountain ashes, especially along the shore where
they extended their branches out over the
water the coral red berries glowing against
the dark background of pine foliage or heather-
clad moorland. Saw no birds save Martins
Tits and Redstart near the hotel. There 
are apparently no water-fowl on this part
of the Loch and neither Sandpipers nor
Wagtails about its pebbly shores.
  At 12 M. started by coach fro Inversnaid
a drive of about 5 miles. The scenery is very
beautiful, the mountains all much like
Ben Venue, treeless, covered with grass and
heather to their summits, yet very rugged
and imposing in form& outline and
abounding in rich shades of olive, brown,
and purple coloring. None of our American