Thorough Guide Series. THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND (as far as Stornoway, Lochinver, and Lairg) WITH A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE VARIOUS ROUTES FROM ENGLAND AND THE PRINCIPAL PLACES OF BY M. J. B. BADDELEY, B.A., AUTHOR OF THE THOROUGH GUIDE TO THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT." DULAU & CO., 37, SOHO SQUARE, 1881. [All rights reserved.] SIANE COLOURING OF THE MAPS. -:0: The method of colouring adopted in these maps being almost, if not quite new to the general public, except so far as the companion Guide Book to the English Lake District has made it known, a few words of explanation may be of use to the tourist. The different tints represent different heights. The light green shows all that portion of the district which lies under the level of 500 feet, at which height a contour line is drawn, i.e., a line on which all points are at the same height above sea-level. Next comes the dark green tint, extending from 500 to 1,000 feet: above that, the light brown, covering all the country between 1,000 and 2,000 feet; then the dark brown, reaching 3,000 feet, and the dark neutral tint with a limit of 4,000 feet; and lastly, everything above 4,000 feet is left white. The height of each contour line is marked upon it in figures on the map, and the intermediate five hundreds are also shown by thin lines. The advantages which it is hoped that the tourist will gain from this new and necessarily much more complex method of printing are as follows: First. By associating the different colours with their respective ranges of height, he will at any point of his journey be able to estimate almost as accurately as with a pocket aneroid the height at which he is standing above sea-level. Secondly.-He will read clearly all those names and figures which in the old system of hill shading were obscured in proportion to the extent of its execution. Thirdly. In planning a walk he will see at a glance from his map what amount of climbing he has before him, and the relative steepness of its different parts. In such a wide mountain region as that of Scotland it is impossible, within the limits of a portable book, to describe fully every remunerative route. A glance at the coloured map, however, will suggest to the enterprising tourist many feasible ones, hitherto but little known. Wherever two long strips of green approach one another from opposite directions, there lies the col, and the brown tints, together with the intermediate lines, will show its height to within a hundred feet or so. The routes described in this book are, with the exception of the railway ones, marked brown on the maps. |