Ben Nevis. — Uphani. 377 
tude of the mountains and the very plentiful snowfall, than 
any part of the icefields of Ireland,, Wales, and England. 
Many recessional moraines of that closing stage of the British 
glaciation in the neighborhood of Ben Nevis were ob- 
served and mapped by me in Glen Roy, in the Spean and 
Lochy valleys, and in Glen Nevis, along a distance of about 
twenty miles from northeast to southwest. 
The day of my ascent of Ben Nevis, June 30th, had so 
fair a morning that it beguiled me to delay until in the later 
part of the day I entered clouds and a rainstorm on the sum- 
mit. Instead of having the wide outlook that was thus pre- 
vented, I found in the observatory library Sir Arcliibald 
Geikie's very instructive book, "The Scenery of Scotland," 
in which I read there an hour, taking notes on the Great 
Glen, the Parallel Roads, Ben Nevis, etc. From the bridle 
path, in ascending, I had noted four small moraines stretch- 
ing across Glen Nevis at the southwestern base of the moun- 
tain, between three and five miles from Fort William. On my 
return I noted four or five other little moraines, crossing the 
lower part of Glen Nevis, on the farms at the foot of the bridle 
path. 
Next to the north, a larger moraine extends a miles east- 
ward from the Nevis bridge; and between one and two miles 
farther north a belt of such morainic drift kn(^lls and small 
ridges, 10 to 30 feet high, strown with many boulders, runs 
from the northwest base of Ben Nevis west and northwest 
across the Lochy valley to Banavie and the adjoining hills. 
Thence passing on July ist. and again on the 3rd, bv the 
railway northeast to Roy Bridge station, I counted and ap- 
proximately mapped nine narrow moraines, at intervals vary- 
ing from a quarter of a mile to one mile apart, in the distance 
of about six miles from the new Inverlochy castle to the most 
northeastern one noted, which crosses the Spean valley from 
north to south and southeast about a third of a mile east of 
Spean Bridge station. These moraines vary from a few rods 
to an eighth of a mile in width, and reach one to two miles 
across the valley which is followed by the railway. Their hill- 
ocks and ridges of bouldery drift rise only 10 to 20 feet 
above the smooth and cultivated intervening parts of the val- 
ley. The moraine noted close east of Spean Bridge appears 
to mark the place of the ice-front when it was the barrier of 
