size. An interesting note regarding these cliffs appears in the September number of the Journal.

The scenery of the Cairngorms is impressive rather than striking, heavy rather than rugged. They lack the picturesque grandeur of the western hills, and their summits are mostly wide-stretching plateaux covered with granite debris, which cheat one out of the sense of having reached the summit of a peak. Still they have an indefinable charm of their own with their great stretches of stony waste, their rounded hillsides, and their deep worn valleys, and they must ever attract the lover of wild nature and must impress all with a feeling of stern majestic solidity.

S.M.C. GUIDE BOOK.

SRON A CHOIRE GHAIRBH.

(DIVISION III. GROUP I.)

Lat. 57° 0'; W. Lon. 4° 55′. Ordnance Survey Map, one-inch scale, Sheet 62. Bartholomew's Reduced Ordnance Map, Sheet 15.

Sron a Choire Ghairbh (3,066 feet) = the nose of the rough corrie. Lies five miles north-east of Achnacarry, on the west side of Loch Lochy.

Meall an Teanga (3,047 feet approx.) the tongue-shaped hill. Lies 1 miles south of Sron a Choire Ghairbh. (This hill only appears on the O.S. Map as a 2,750 feet contour. Dr Heddle by careful measurements, aneroid and otherwise, made the height as above.) This group lies two miles to the west of the north end of Loch Lochy on the Caledonian Canal, some four miles south-west of Invergarry Station, and five miles north-east of Achnacarry. There is no rock-climbing, properly speaking, to be had on it; but the Coire Glas, owing to its sheltered northern aspect, holds in spring great quantities of snow. The southern and western slopes of Sron a Choire Ghairbh are comprised of steep grass and screes, and access up or down may be obtained anywhere. Being the highest ground in the Glengarry deer forest, it commands one of the finest views in the district. The story is told of one of old Glengarry's stalkers, finding himself with a noble earl on the summit, and desirous of impressing his visitor with the extent of his chief's dominions, exclaimed, "All that you see❞—and then unable to find the right English word, he panted out-"and all that you do not see, that's Glengarry's!"

Sron a Choire Ghairbh may be easily reached from Invergarry Station by following the road to Kilfinnan, and then striking up the steep slopes of Meall nan Dearcag gain the broad ridge, from whence an easy walk leads to

the top. Another way is from Gairlochy by the road past Bunarkaig through the "Mile Dorcha," up the Gleann Cia-aig by the track on the east side of the burn to Fedden. From here a zigzag course up the steep grassslopes will take one to the summit. The track from Fedden runs north to Greenfield, from whence by boat or ford the Garry is crossed and the main road gained between Tomdown and Invergarry.

Gulvain is the highest point in the long range of hills that stretches from the sea eastward to the river Lochy, between Lochs Morar and Arkaig in the north, and Lochs Eilt and Loch Eil in the south.

It rises into two summits, 3,224 and 3,148 feet respectively. The slopes are not excessively steep in any direction.

The usual way, if the train suits, is to take it from FortWilliam, and get out at Kinlocheil Station. From there a mile or so westwards along the road brings one to the entrance of Glen Fionnlighe. Up this one goes along a fair track to where the glen forks, and then a stiff pull up the steep hillside takes one to the summit.

The Rev. A. E. Robertson tells me when staying at Glen Dessarry he made the ascent on the north side, and found no difficulty in reaching the summit from Gleann Camgharaidh.

W. D.