i)0 LUNDY ISLAND. 



as often and as long as memory dwelt upon them. 

 For the memory of pain is not painful, while the 

 memory of pleasure is often little less pleasant than 

 the first enjoyment of it. 



Dining with the hospitable proprietor, we gleaned 

 some fragments of information on the natural history 

 of this little isle, that we should have had no oppor- 

 tunity of learning by actual observation. The boggy 

 moors in the elevated centre of the island afford a 

 suitable rendezvous to the woodcock and the snipe ; 

 and sporting gentlemen occasionally come over, ex- 

 pressly to take the former on their first arrival, which 

 usually precedes their appearance on the mainland by 

 several days. Swallows and swifts we should expect 

 to find here ; but I was somewhat surprised to learn 

 that the goatsucker is a regular summer visitor, as 

 we commonly associate this bird with groves and 

 woods, of which the isle is absolutely deprived. 

 Among the occasional visitants were mentioned the 

 rose pastor and the hoopoe, both birds of considerable 

 size and of great beauty. The wild duck, the widgeon, 

 and the teal, are sufficiently numerous to affbrd first- 

 rate sport. The peregrine falcon breeds in the lofty 

 cliffs, especially in those of the exterior side. One of 

 the farm labourers shewed me a pair of well-grown 

 birds which he had reared from the nest ; they were 

 in excellent health and condition, and in full plu- 

 mage. The nest had been rifled by a boy let down 

 from above for the purpose, at that part of the per- 

 pendicular cliffs which is immediately over the Seal 



