. Wanderings of a naturalist . Salmon Spawning-ground on the Upper Dee,. LOCH EINICH AND SGORAN from near the source of Allt choire dhondail. CHAPTER XXXII SGORAN DUBH : AN AUTUMN SNOWFALL RISING precipitously from lonely Loch Einich, andstanding some dozen miles south-south-west fromAviemore, is the wild and gloomy hill known asSgoran Dubh, or as it may be translated into English, theBlack Rock. The most westerly of the Cairngorm rangeof hills, it is at times mist-capped when its higher and moreeastern neighbours, Ben MacDhui and Cairngorm, are clearto their tops, and even in June
. Wanderings of a naturalist . Salmon Spawning-ground on the Upper Dee,. LOCH EINICH AND SGORAN from near the source of Allt choire dhondail. CHAPTER XXXII SGORAN DUBH : AN AUTUMN SNOWFALL RISING precipitously from lonely Loch Einich, andstanding some dozen miles south-south-west fromAviemore, is the wild and gloomy hill known asSgoran Dubh, or as it may be translated into English, theBlack Rock. The most westerly of the Cairngorm rangeof hills, it is at times mist-capped when its higher and moreeastern neighbours, Ben MacDhui and Cairngorm, are clearto their tops, and even in June sunshine its precipices have acertain grimness. In early summer when snowfields stilllinger near the summit, the emerald green of the younggrasses and blaeberry plants contrast pleasantly with thesesnows and with the blackness of the rocks, And the resultis a blending of colours to delight the eye. Then again,in October, when the grasses become brown and the blae-berry plants turn to rich colours, the hill still shows thisharmony of tints. But one autumn, winter came
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