158 STUDIES OF NATURE 



We are now at the height of about 1,600 feet ; 

 and, looking north-east by east, there comes into 

 view the most glorious rainbow which it has 

 ever been our fortune to behold. We do not 

 look up to it, but down upon it ; and its 

 marvellously intense colours are painted not 

 upon the background of the sky, but upon the 

 sea and the land. Its southern limb, which is 

 upon our right, touches the very hill on which 

 we stand; then it curves close by the Corrie 

 landing creek, runs out as far as Garroch Head, 

 returns by North Sannox, and, finally, rests its 

 northern base on a point of the hill-range not 

 far to the left of us. Having described quite 

 seven-eighths of a circle it should hardly, per- 

 haps, be called a bow. It was worth the trouble 

 of climbing on to this craggy shelf if only to see 

 so wonderful a spectacle beneath us and around 

 us ; and, as we look at it, we think of that un- 

 surpassed vision of the Ancient of Days, and of 

 the rainbow -encircled throne in the Apocalypse. 



