| Description | Roderick Impey Murchison, fieldbooks & diaries: Scotland
“1826 Tour with my wife.” (2) (180 pp –1 - 178 + 86b + 87b). 5 July: Mull cont. Bunessan (3), Carsaig (4), sketch of cliffs (6), pencil sketch of cliffs (7), Nun’s Cave (9); pencil sketch (10), explanation (11); Loch Buie (13), “Back to Knock and Aros” (17). “Aros in Mull to Oban”: Loch Aline [Morvern, High], Ardtornish Castle (19), Duart Castle [Mull], Achnacraig (19), Oban [Strathc[. “Oban, Kerrara etc,” (20): Kerrara, watercoloured section – “curvilinear section embracing the summit Cadbruig, and Loch na Kerichke [?]” (21). Oban to Fort William [High]by open boat: Dunollie Castle [Strathc], Dunstaffnage Castle, mouth of Lich Etive, Beregonium (26). Sketch of the mouth of Loch Etive (29). Lochnell, mouth of Loch Crenan, Appin House (31), mouth of Loch Leven [High] (32). Ballachulish, Invercoe (33). 10 July: Ben Nevis (35-9). Parallel roads, Glenroy (40-5). Return to Spean Bridge for road to fort Augustus; Loch Lochy, Loch Garry (45), Loch Loyne, Loch Cluanie (46). Section from A’Cralaig – Beinn Loinne (47). Glen Sheil (48), Mam Rattachan, Kyle of Lochalsh (49); Skye. Broadford Bay (50), Pabay (50-2), Armadale Castle (54-6). 17 July: “Loch Scavaig, Coruisk from Armadale Castle.” Across Sleat (57) by boat to Strathaird (58), Maiden Rock [sketch], Loch Scavaig (59) Coruisk (60-2). “P.S. written...1862” (63). Armadale, Knock, Broadford (64), Strath marble quarries (64-70) sketch p. 68 Loch Sligachan (68), Scalpay (71-2), Broadford [Corry] to Portree: Lochs Ainort and Sligachan (73), Loch of Portree (75), Loch Snizort, Kingburgh, Loch Uig, Monkstadt (76). Return to Portree (79), the Storr (80-2); “Oolite – coast from Portree to Holm [Island]”; Note made 1827 (87b-100 [?]), sketch (88) – “a subsequent examination of the Beal beds with Sedgwick ....” Portree market, return to Corry (102), Corry to Applecross (103), deer stalking (102-5), Applecross (106), Tornapress, Kishorn, by boat to Plockton, Balmacara (108). Balmacara to Brahan Castle [nr Strathpeffer], Lochcarron, Craig (110) Achnasheen, Strath Bran (112), Grudie (113), sketch of the area around Loch Ussie, Strathpeffer (116), Knockrarvil ? (117-9), P.S. 1862 (120). “Dingwall, Tulloch etc.” Brahan, Dingwall (121), Loch Ussie, Tulloch Castle nr Dingwall (122), Mountgerald, Alness (123). [His birthplace, Tarradale, between Alness and Strathrory r. (124).] Kincardine, Bonar Bridge (125). Rest of book blank, except p. 176 “Anecdotes of the Murchisons collected in Lochalsh 1826.” |