438 FULMARUS GLACIALIS. 
luckily the Messrs. Milner had a minister with them. One oldish 
man could remember seeing the Great Auk very many years ago. 
(Mr. Graham, afterwards a well-known bird-stuffer at York, was taken by 
the Messrs. Milner with them on their visit to St. Kilda in 1847, an account 
of which was given by the elder of the brothers, afterwards Sir William 
Milner, in ‘The Zoologist’ for 1848 (pp. 2054-2062). This egg was one of 
those then obtained, but from which of the islands which make up the group 
known as “St. Kilda” there is no evidence to shew. The species breeds 
in vast numbers on Soay, but there are a good many on St. Kilda itself. ] 
§ 5121. Sia—<J. W. tpse.” ; ke 
Store Dimon, Ferdée, 30 June, 
4. 
§ 5122. Four. De 
From Sandie. ‘‘ Boat betimes for Store Dimon. Psalms [sung | 
on starting. Frdese shoes for rocks. Magnificent perpendicular 
cliffs. Cattle hoisted up perpendicular about forty fathoms. We 
climb another place. Rotten ropes not to be trusted, so fingers 
[inserted] in holes chiselled in rocks. Certainly precarious.” This 
is evidently the track by which Graba' [Reise nach Faro, p. 173] 
left the island ; but a basket could not be let down exactly into a 
boat, though it almost might be at the spot where the cattle are 
hauled up (vide ‘ Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands, efc.’ [ By 
James Nicol], p.313). ‘ Farmer, coffee, dried Puffs. Ropes down 
rocks near thirty fathoms for Hedvhestur (Sea-horse) [i. e. Fulmar]. 
I took two on eggs, one of them got off with my red handkerchief, to 
the great delight of the Faréese. I gathered eight of their eggs— 
nest made of fragments of stone in a slight depression. Rock rotten. 
Fulmars bite hard—spewed on my approach. Have only built in 
Feerde the last ten years. Grindaboe on our return. Smoke seen 
in Skarvenzes just as we are passing Sku6e, near the shore. Signal 
soon returned from Skude. Row hard-on for Sands.” I gave the 
men a pound to their great delight, as they had not seen gold before. 
There was in the face of the cliffs of Store Dimon the most curious 
foot-path formed by a ledge at the junction of two beds of trap [rock]. 
It was very narrow, but extended some hundreds of yards to a slope 
where the people went to catch Puffins or to gather Angelica. It is 
just like the imaginary scene in Sir Charles Fellows’s ‘Ascent of Mont 
1 [Mr. Wolley’s knowledge of what Graba wrote must have been limited to 
what is said in the English work cited in the next few lines.—Ep. ] 
