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Plate 1: Loch Katrine – Loch Ceiterein from Ben A’an - Am Binnean. Coire na[n] Ùruisgean is the corrie rising from the loch behind the steamboat.
In Neil Gunn’s Young Art and Old Hector, the boy mistakes the bearded and bewhiskered old man for an Ùruisg as he emerges from a mossy cave concealing an illict whisky still.
A Topomnemonic in Glen Dochart
In 1928, William Watson collected a story from Alexander Campbell of Boreland about two British soldiers from Glen Dochart whose paths happened to cross in upper Canada when fighting the French during the mid 18th century. Both men must have been incredulous at this unlikelihood, since one of them asked the other for proof of his provenance and the other replied with a topo-mnemonic riddle. The reply is a recitation of place-names. Except for one or two, all lie within a short distance of one another. The majority are intervisible. The topomnemonic showed that the respondee could articulate his home territory by referring to fieldnames, settlements, chapels, wildlife and natural features (ssss1).