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and present no particular features of interest.
On turning homewards I felt I was tired as
we had traversed many miles of rough country,
through heather & over boggy tracts. I was there:
:fore not a little pleased to meet Jocelyn, who
had landed from her boat on the loch to look
out for me about a couple of miles from
home. She had fished all day with no success
and trolling home brought us none either.
I compute my mileage at about 16 today.
At breakfast we were rejoiced by a telegram
from Chrissie announcing that Mary was
much better. The keeper was a most interesting
companion, as in exchange for my lore he
gave me his and told me much of the habits
of the deer and the wild birds. He drew my
attention to the great number of stumps of
fir trees which appeared in the peat where
-ever it had been cut into by the burns or
the water at the sides of the lochs. No fir trees
grow here now.

19th May. A fine morning. We hired a trap
to drive to Dun Dornadilla. We had a
most lovely drive of about 12 miles through
moors becoming more and more lonely as we
went on. To the N. [North] Ben Loyal rose, an ideal

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