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trees here would be out of their element. In calm 

 weather they are not needed, in a storm they would seem 

 out of place. 



Any one who has seen an Orkney sunset in June or 

 July, tracing its diamond path across island, reef, and 

 tideway, must confess that it is scarcely possible to 

 suggest an addition to its beauty. 



THE STEXNIS STONES. 



From Wideford Hill you can cast your eye upon 

 structures that are memorials of every form of religion 

 that has ever existed in Scotland. Stennis and its 

 standing stones are in sight, eight or ten miles off. 

 Nearer to you are some of those inscrutable mounds 

 called Picts' houses. On the Isle of Eagleshay, which 



