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horseshoe formation of grassy slopes rising for
near a thousand feet all round and upwards
we toiled under an almost cloudless sky where
the Hawse Burn rushed with a flow that would
have watered a city fed by springs high on the
mountain side near the 2000' level. Gaining the
summit of Corserine (2668') we saw our objective
a mile still to the northward on the top of the
Carlin's cairn to reach which we had to descend
a few hundred feet to a saddle & mount again
upwards. The prospect was magnificent.
The Merrick with Loch Enoch at its foot lay
but a few miles away while over the shoulders
of innumerable hills round which peeped the
blue waters of Loch Dee, Loch Valley, and others,
we could see a great stretch of Wigtown Bay.
It was a walk of about 6 miles on a modest
reckoning to the top & the same back again
& in all the journey I saw only two grouse
so little heather is there in that region. Three
ravens croaked about us on the hill top
thoroughly in keeping with their surroundings

Carsphairn Carlin's Cairn (10)
On the summit of the mountain known
as the carlin's cairn 2650' in height is a
large circular cairn which has perchance
given the mountain its name. It measures

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