STUDIES OF NATUEE 



the kirk vivid lightning played about the win- 

 dows, and we could hear the thunder rolling 

 from peak to peak in Sannox Glen. The preacher 

 had a voice much too big for his building big 

 enough, indeed, to have filled the dome of St. 

 Paul's ; but once or twice his denunciations 

 were humorously drowned by the tones of the 

 thunder. The sea is now very heavy, and 

 flings an immense volume of water against, and 

 sometimes over, the great rock which is opposite 

 our door. It is quite dark except where a 

 glimmer of twilight, issuing from a break low 

 down in the sky,, catches the tops of the waves 

 as they come hurrying and roaring onward to 

 the shore. 



What a change is this from the evening 

 of yesterday. We were out fishing for whiting 

 with a deep-sea line when there came on one of 

 those marvellous sunsets which a man sees but 

 a few times in his life. The sea was a sheet of 

 molten glass and ready to mirror every tinge of 



