"The glens, peninsulas and islands of the West coast, from Galloway to Cape Wrath, would constitute an Western province the several corners of which could always be connected more easily by coastal voyages than by any route across the wooded and mountainous interior. Despite the frequence of tempests the island studded waters may at times be as calm as an inland sea from which the next high island or headland rises conspicuous and enticing"

©Graeme Warren 1997

©assemblage 1997