THE GOLDEN EAGLE. 7 



It is hoped that the youthful reader of this volume, 

 loves and studies the Bible — the word of the God of 

 eternal truth ; and if so, the language of Moses will 

 be at once recalled : " The Lord's portion is his people ; 

 Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in 

 a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness ; he 

 led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the 

 apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, 

 fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, 

 taketh them, beareth them on her wings : so the Lord 

 alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with 

 him," Deut. xxxii. 9 — 12. Should indifference to the 

 value of the Scriptures be unhappily felt, let it be re- 

 membered, that it indicates the carnality of mind which 

 is enmity against God, and which must be counteracted 

 by his grace, if we would share the privileges of the 

 true " circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and 

 rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the 

 flesh." What a beautiful emblem have we of the Di- 

 vine care, in that of the eagle for her young ! 



This bird may be frequently observed in some parts 

 of the kingdom. One of these is Lochlee, lying in a 

 singular basin, between two perpendicular cliffs on the 

 north, and high and precipitous mountains on the south, 

 at the head of the North Esk in Forfarshire. A pair 



