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any success for the Germans. The Russians
are again pressing westward and have
once more occupied the Bukovina and
further North, the line of the Strypa. At the
end of last week the Italians captured
Gorizia, and are threatening Trieste. The
British & French troops are daily biting
into the German third line defences in
the region of the Somme, and the Turk,
who had the presumption to attempt
an invasion of Egypt, has had a salutary
lesson, and it seems as if few of his army
of 16000 men will manage to return whence
they came.

3rd Sept. 1916
Tomorrow we leave our summer quarters at
Nethybridge and return to Edinburgh. Except
for the first fortnight the weather has not
been very good, and in the middle of last
month our pleasure was much interfered
with by rain. Nearly everyday, however, we
all managed to play a game or two at
golf, and in consequence have all
improved a little. The course is a very
bad one in normal times, & this year
is worse than usual owing to the grass,
which has been allowed to grow up very long.

The lowest score which I have been able to return
for a round of 9 holes is 54! It is a terrible place
for losing balls, and conversely for finding them,
at which Sandy is particularly good. On searching
in the bog for a lost ball on one occasion we
found three others! We have all bicycled
a great deal when weather permitted. We, Jocelyn
Sandy, & I, were lucky last Wednesday in having
a fine day for an expedition to Loch Morlich.
It is a charming expedition, by bicycle and
foot, for the track from Forest Lodge to the
Little Green Loch beyond Ryroan is as a rule
too rough to ride over. the heather at present
is in full flower, and the colour effects be:
:neath the pines of the forest which it pro:
:duces, are a great delight to us all. We
eat our lunch by the side of the Green Loch,
& finished it with quantities of magnificent
blaeberries, which we found around it, each
one nearly as large as a small cherry. From
Loch Morlich we returned via the Sluggan Pass
& Boat of Garten Road. On pour way home
Sandy & I visited a mound behind Mains
of Gartenmore to which Mr Cameron, Coul-na-Kyle
had called my attention. He pronounced it
to be "undoubtedly defensive" and he was right
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