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Zbc Selborne Societ'j’s fTbagasine. 
No. 69. SEPTEMBER, 1895. Vol. VI. 
THE FALLS OF FOYERS. 
HE Fall of Foyers is the most magnihcent cataract, 
out of all sight and hearing, in Britain. The din is 
quite loud enough in ordinary weather, and it is only 
in ordinary weather that you can approach the place 
from which you have a full view of its grandeur. In ordinary 
Highland weather — meaning thereby, weather neither very wet 
nor very dry — it is worth walking a thousand miles to see the 
Fall of Foyers.” 
This is Professor Wilson’s description of the Falls — there are 
two — which, unless some very unforeseen intervention should 
occur, will shortly cease to exist. It seems right that the 
readers of Nature Notes should be made acquainted with the 
desecration that is in course of progress, and a recent visit to 
Foyers, made during a delightful stay at the hospitable Bene- 
dictine Monastery which stands at the head of Loch Ness, 
enables us to speak from personal observation as to the facts 
of the case. 
The Duke of Westminster, as President of “The National 
Trust for Places of Historic Interest, or Natural Beauty ” — can 
no simpler title be found for this body ? — has discovered some- 
what late in the day that the Falls of Foyers are in danger, and 
has written a protest which has appeared in most of the London 
papers, but has been refused insertion by the Scotsman. He 
points out that the matter was under discussion in the Press 
and in the House of Commons some months ago, and adds that 
“ most people seem to have been left under the erroneous 
impression that the danger has been averted.” The Daily 
Chronicle rightly points out that, so far from this being the case, 
