0100,0100,0100Sid, I am sure that you are right in terms of the custom of adding a stone...I have asked around here and have not found anyone who knows of this custom in the Highlands although it is customary to add a stone to cairns on summits. I doubt very much if there were dispersed graves in the manner suggested by Verne. I should have mentioned that there is an old chapel on the roadside and I am sure that this is where people would have been buried. It is now sadly a café ( with hardly any residents there would be little need for a place of worship) but I imagine it would have had a graveyard....I will check next time. Also the hamlet of Balquidder is nearby and has an extensive graveyard (including the grave of Verne's hero Rob Roy MacGregor).Much of the area traversed by Verne is snowbound in winter and therefore would have been inaccessible to relatives of the defunct and highly eroded by the snow melt in late spring and therefore not really suitable for a grave.However, the beauty of studying Verne "on the ground" is that for every enigma one hopes to have solved another one pops up! Ian.