PART II. 



PROM THE PASS OF LENY TO BALAHELISH. 

 (Read %d February 1810.J 



I am now to resume the account of my observa- 

 tions on the Highland districts, which I have had 

 an opportunity of examining. 



From the Pass of Leny to Arthudilly on the 

 banks of Loch-Lubnaig, the general rock that 

 meets the eye, is clay-slate, with its usual varieties 

 of character ; being the continuation to the north- 

 east of the same formation which has been de- 

 scribed at the foot of Ben-Ledi. The road winds 

 beautifully along the margin of the Loch; and 

 in different places of the rising ground on the 

 right hand, slate-quarries appear to have been 

 opened. A little beyond Arthudilly, the oldest 

 clay-slate passes into dark-greenish grey mica- slate ; 

 of which the first appearances on the side of the 

 road are interesting, when closely examined. It is 

 undulated and distorted in every conceivable form. 

 Here beds of a somewhat peculiar variety occur ; 

 in which there is a mixture of hornblende and 

 mica passing into chlorite, and containing iron- 



