Excerpt from The Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, 1897, Vol. 4 They exhibit very little variety, being almost wholly covered with dark heath, and even that seems to be checked in its growth. What is not heath is nakedness, a little diversified by now and then a stream rushing down the steep. An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent Of hopeless sterility. T be appearance is t/zat of matter in capable of form or usefulness, dismissed by Nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. The idea of Suilven and other mountains of the west being incapable of form is exquisite and the holding up of flowery pastures and waving harvests as the only kind of scenery to be admired, presents an exact parallel to the sentiment of my friend, the West Highland sea captain. Quoted in my first address as President, who could under stand people admiring the beauty of Greenock or Gourock. With their trim villas and straight paths, but could see nothing to admire on Loch Pyne - where there was nothing but rocks and woods, and the like 0' that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.