FRAGMENTS FROM THE SEASHORE. 225 



of a lighthouse on the Bass 

 had ruthlessly robbed every 

 nest they could reach. 

 These disappointing 

 tidings were of 

 very material 

 consequence. I 

 knew perfectly 

 well that such 



ON THE 

 CLIFFS, 

 AILSA 

 CRAIG. 



nests as were not within 

 measure of the daring 

 of men whose heads 

 were inured to giddy heights would be useless 

 to me, hampered with photographic parapher- 

 nalia, so I straightway decided to cross over to the 

 west side of Scotland and try my luck on Ailsa 

 Craig, which is in every way a rougher and more 

 perilous rock stack upon which to study sea birds, 



