. Wanderings of a naturalist . Croaghaun of Garbh Choire Mhor : The Corrie in the old snowfields with a powdering of fresh snow over them. CHAPTER XXXVIII GARBH CHOIRE MHOR : A CORRIE IN THE CAIRNGORM MOUNTAINS IYING in the heart of the Cairngorm Hills, where no eyecan see it from a distance, is the Great Rough Corrie,or, as it is known in the Gaelic speech, Garbh ChoireMhor. (Pronounced Garav Korry Vor.) I think that of all the corries of this wild mountain rangeit must be the most gloomy and remote; yet it holds, especi-ally during dark days of storm, a great charm a
. Wanderings of a naturalist . Croaghaun of Garbh Choire Mhor : The Corrie in the old snowfields with a powdering of fresh snow over them. CHAPTER XXXVIII GARBH CHOIRE MHOR : A CORRIE IN THE CAIRNGORM MOUNTAINS IYING in the heart of the Cairngorm Hills, where no eyecan see it from a distance, is the Great Rough Corrie,or, as it is known in the Gaelic speech, Garbh ChoireMhor. (Pronounced Garav Korry Vor.) I think that of all the corries of this wild mountain rangeit must be the most gloomy and remote; yet it holds, especi-ally during dark days of storm, a great charm and one thatis peculiarly its own. I know the corrie at all seasons of theyear, and I think that in early November, when late autumnis merging into winter, and when the high tops are snow-sprinkled, it may be seen at its best. The mists are often on the hill-tops these short days oflate autumn, and descend into the corrie, filling it with greyvapours that sway and eddy with the uncertain gusts of falls early in the corrie, for on every
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