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panorama of the Park and Harris hills expanded. 

 The lodge of the Aline shooting stands over 

 Loch Seaforth, looking down towards the 

 Minch, on the bounds of Lews and Harris, 

 and of a soft summer's evening, on a fairer or 

 more lovely spot never did the eye of man rest. 

 The sea-loch, without a ripple, at your feet ; 

 Glen Scarladale's dark side, falling down upon 

 its shores ; and Cleisham towering into the 

 evening mist, with the peaks of Langan Grlen 

 and the other Harris hills clustering round, 

 form a scene that often and often have I passed 

 hour after hour looking on, and thanking God 

 for such a sight and the power of enjoying it. 

 There are parts of the south-west of Ireland — 

 Kerry, to wit — scarcely to be surpassed in 

 beauty ; but Loch Seaforth, on its proper day, 

 has, in my eyes, no rival. The scene had the 

 same effect on my two comrades, and before 

 we I'etired for the night it was decided that, as 

 far as the Lews was concerned, it should be 

 Aline or nothing. 



But then here came a difficulty. The 

 authorities were very anxious to let the north 

 shooting, or Soval, but wanted more or less to 

 keep Aline — and no wonder. The Park, which 

 was part of the Aline shooting, though it was 

 not a forest — for it was let as a sheep-farm — 



