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water. In the shallow rivulets, also, trout and sal- 

 mon swarm at certain seasons, and might easily be 

 captured. Some years ago, a large salmon was 

 found dead, and an immense eagle drowned be- 

 side it, with the claws of the one stuck into the 

 back of the other, upon the banks of Moffat water. 

 A few days before, a party of young men had 

 started on a Sunday night to spear salmon by 

 the light of a blazing torch ; Moffat water, from 

 its general shallowness, and the nakedness and 

 level character of its banks, offering unwonted 

 facilities for this sport. The parties had scarce- 

 ly begun to search the pools, when they were 

 astonished with some strange noise that came 

 " splash, splash" upon them ; and soon a huge 

 pair of wings appeared, magnified by the uncer- 

 tain light, and accompanied with other startling 

 and unearthly noises. The phenomenon floated 

 past, almost among their feet ; and the young 

 men terrified, and impressed with the idea that 

 an apparition had appeared to warn them of the 

 danger of misspending the Sabbath day, left their 

 sport and returned home. The circumstance 

 was kept a profound secret, until the discovery 

 of the cause of the phenomenon relieved the 

 youths from the fears which it had excited. 



Eagles are very destructive to lambs, but they 

 seldom attempt to carry them off, excepting from 

 an eminence ; for from a flat surface an eagle rises 

 with great difficulty, and not until after repeated 

 flappings of its wings, although in the air it ex- 



