BEN-NEVIS. 



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SOUTH DECLIVITY. 



Among a variety of interesting objects which 

 now present themselves, there is seen on the op- 

 posite side of the Nevis, which washes the south- 

 ern base of the mountain, a splendid waterfall of 

 not less than 500 feet in perpendicular height. 

 It is also remarkable, that the rock over which 

 the stream rushes, appears, at the distance from 

 which I observed it, to be disposed in regular 

 strata, probably of gneiss or mica-slate, with an 

 inclination towards Ben-Nevis. 



At the position thus reached, I found myself 

 in the region of debris which extends along the 

 acclivity of the mountain to the place on the 

 west side, where the change of colour in the rock 

 was first observed without discovering the line of 

 transition. Further research in that direction, 

 did not therefore promise to furnish any additional 

 oryctognostic information. Descending, accord- 

 ingly, by the course of the fifth or last stream, 

 which was described as running in a direction 

 opposite to that of the Stone Burn, little occurs to 

 engage the attention of the mineralogist, at least 

 in the general characters of the rock ; which seem- 

 ed, as far as I could observe, to be, for the most 

 part, much the same with those of the substances, 

 at the corresponding heights on the north side, 

 formerly described. 



