  We consider thermodynamic and transport properties of a long granular array
with strongly connected grains (inter-grain conductance g>>1.) We find that the
system exhibits activated behavior of conductance and thermodynamic density of
states ~exp(-T*/T) where the gap, T*, is parametrically larger than the energy
at which conventional perturbation theory breaks down. The scale T* represents
energy needed to create a long single-electron charge soliton propagating
through the array.
