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Title: The Cruise of the Elena
or Yachting in the Hebrides

Author: J. Ewing Ritchie

Release Date: June 17, 2010 [eBook #32858]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CRUISE OF THE ELENA***

Transcribed from the 1877 James Clarke & Co. edition by David Price,
email ccx074@pglaf.org

THE
CRUISE OF THE
ELENA

OR

_YACHTING IN THE HEBRIDES_

* * * * *

BY
J. EWING-RITCHIE

_Author of_ "_The Night Side of London_," _&c. &c._

* * * * *

London
JAMES CLARKE & CO., 13, FLEET STREET
1877

* * * * *

LONDON
W. SPEAIGHT & SONS, PRINTERS, FETTER LANE.

* * * * *

TO
JOHN ANDERSON, ESQ.,
OF GLEN TOWER, ARGYLESHIRE,
OWNER OF THE ELENA,
This Little Volume is Dedicated
BY THE AUTHOR,
IN MEMORY OF A PLEASANT CRUISE ON BOARD THE ELENA
IN THE AUTUMN OF 1876.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. OFF FOR GREENOCK 3
II. FROM GREENOCK TO ARDROSSAN 17
III. A SUNDAY AT OBAN 29
IV. FROM OBAN TO GLENCOE 39
V. OFF MULL 49
VI. FAST DAY AT PORTREE 59
VII. TO STORNOWAY 73
VIII. KINTYRE AND CAMPBELTOWN 83
IX. BACK AGAIN