picked up many varieties of granite, which
added confiderably to my weight, and were
very inconvenient to carry. I examined
many fiflures in Bafaltie rocks as I pafled,
and found the fides corroded, and very
full of holes. Arrived at Inverary, re-
frefhed, and proceeded to Port Sonnochin,
3 2 miles .diftant. The Duke of Argyles’ feat
is delightfully fituated, and happily adapt*-
fd to its fcite and furrounding obje&s ;
the interior is elegant and magnificent.
The caftle is built of a fingular kind
of ftone, I fcarcely know by what name
to call i t ; it appears a fpecies of argillaceous
pot ftone; the magnefian earth
feems predominant from its foap like feel.
I was informed that it is found on the oppo-
fite fide of the Loch. I proceeded to Port
Sonnochin, over immenfe mountains im-
merfedin the clouds; and wasfurprifed to fee
fu^h quantities of rounded pieces of granite*
fonie
fome of amazing fize, detached on the
fummits.
Port Sonnochin is on the banks of Loch
Awe, a frefh water lake well ftored with
falmon ; I was ferried over about half a mile,
and proceeded to Bunawe, diftant about i o
miles. Having crofted the lake, the country
opens, and the fcenery is lefs wild;
fhiftus and granite feem to compofe the
general range of mountains, which are here
covered with fmall wood. At 9 o’clock arrived
at a tolerable good inn, pleafantly fituated,
where I ftaid ail night.
In the morning I was gratified with fine
weather; fet out for Oban, diftance about
12 miles, a moft excellent road and plea-
fant walk, by Loch Etive to Dunftaffnage.
Here the glens are more fpacious and
more cultivated, the mountains appear in
general to be a bluifh fhiftus and granite.
At Bun Awe is a fmall iron work, fituated
here