ON THE COAST OF AEEAN 57 



steep and sometimes perilous crag-climbing. It 

 is a place into which one should go alone, and 

 at twilight if a cloudy twilight, all the better. 

 Then you seem to stand in Nature's workshop, 

 everything you see is vast and awful, the mists 



come creeping over Suidhe-Fergus and Cioch- 

 na-h'oighe, shaping themselves to the moun- 

 tains, but not touching them. Then the night 

 seems to take visible form, and comes down 

 with the clouds into the glen; and, as you 

 stand and listen, there is always a strange 



