Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 place to sleep meant finding a public house along the road, which could range from a pleasant inn by English standards, to a dirty and smoky peasants hut with no glass windows nor chimney and a dirt floor. More than once the Wordsworths were refused a room for the night [ such as the Arrochar Hotel] after dark in the rain with miles to the next town; however this was contrasted by the kindness and generosity of others, the MacFarlane's at Loch Katrine.[7] Food in 19th century Scotland along the road ranged from boiled fowl and egg on the high
Corrour Bothy is used as a name for the locality as well as specifically as a name for the bothy itself, the name being derived from Coire Odhar according to , who continues: In the author gives the local pronunciation as "Corower", but without explanation. However in the section "Hints on Gaelic pronunciation" appears to suggest the final-vowels of "Coire" (and corrie) are dropped to give "kor", and that the "dh" in "Odhar" are silent because they follow a vowel—giving what sounds like "kor-Oar", or like the "cor-ower" suggested in . In spite of the earlier work and his understanding of Gaelic—and