GLENCOE, a glen in Scotland, situated in the north of Ar gyllshire. Beginning at the north-eastern base of Buchaille Etive, it takes a gentle north-westerly trend for io m. to its mouth on Loch Leven, a salt-water arm of Loch Linnhe. On both sides it is shut in by wild and precipitous mountains and its bed is swept by the Coe—Ossian's "dark Cona,"—which rises in the hills at its eastern end. About halfway down the glen the stream forms the tiny Loch Triochatan. Towards Invercoe the landscape acquires a softer beauty. The late Lord Strathcona, in purchased the heritage of the Macdonalds of Glencoe. The prin cipal mountains on the south side are the various peaks of Buach aille Etive, Stob Dearg (3,345 ft.), Bidean nam Bian and Meall Mor, and on the northern side the Pap of Glencoe, Sgor nam Fiannaidh and Meall Dearg. Points of interest are the Devil's Staircase, a steep, boulder-strewn "cut" across the hills to Fort William; the Study; the cave of Ossian, where tradition says that he was born, and the Iona cross erected in 1883 by a Macdonald in memory of his clansmen who perished in the massacre of 1692. About 1 m. beyond the head of the glen is Kingshouse inn, a relic of the old coaching days. Now the Glencoe excursion is usually made from Oban. One mile to the west of the Glen lies the vil lage of BALLACHULISH, celebrated for slate quarries, worked since 176o. Ballachulish is a station on the L.M.S.R. The pier and ferry are some 2 M. W. of the village.