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to, please let me know. I suppose a little jar with whisky 

 will do for the trouts, but if there is any mode of wrapping 

 up in cloth or otherwise, so as to preserve the scales, you 

 can instruct me. I remember our Sutherland specimens 

 were much damaged : but in my intended trip there will 

 he little or no land-carriage. I think that a small col- 

 lection of specimens, even of the common burn and loch 

 trout, of what may be called (except St Kilda, where 

 there are no trout) the extreme west of all Scottish 

 countries, may form an interesting addition to your col- 

 lections." 



TO MISS H. WILSON. 



" Shooting Lodge (name unknown, 



at i3i6t unpronounceable), 



North-west of Harris, 



6th A ugust '43. 



"You will be pleased to hear that everything has gone 

 on among us most agreeably, in spite of an occasional 

 angry disputatious wind and sullen sky. I believe that 

 we enjoy our bright sunshine all the more for the con- 

 trast, like a diamond 'on the brow of an Ethiopian/ 



"We arrived at the south-eastern corner of Harris on 

 the evening of Tuesday, 2d August. The approach on 

 such a calm sweet evening was beautiful, or rather it was 

 wild and romantic, with something of an unrelenting 



