162 STUDIES OF NATURE 



a mere thread running in the green bog or 

 moss, and then a wider stream with banks of 

 white pebble or sand. And now a descending 

 cloud blots out everything, and while we stand 

 amazed at the change, lo ! we see in the north- 



east a break, no bigger, as it seems, than a 

 man's hand, and through it there comes, as a 

 picture, Loch Eanza in the colours of bright 

 sunlight, and looking like a glimpse of some 

 other world than that on which we stand. 

 After this there is again a partial clearing of 



