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WTTir NATURE AXD A CAMERA. 



strong smell of Fulmar oil, the plenitude of birds' 

 wings and feathers on the midden heaps, and the 

 numbers of birds' eggs that adorn nearly every 

 window. 



Whether they mistrust each other in Hirta or 

 not I do not know, but T was somewhat siupriscd 



WOODEN LOCK. 



DETAILS OF LOCK. 



to find that in a comnumity wliere crime is uidcnown 

 they had ingeniously-constructed wooden locks o\\ 

 all their cowhouse doors. The fact that the cow- 

 houses were once dwelt in by the pe()})le themselves 

 cannot be accei)ted as a satisfactory explanation, 

 inasmuch as tliey have — iustcnid of ulilising llie old 

 locks for tlicir dwelling-houses — ma<h' new ones, 

 although oak and otlier lands of hard wood are 



