NOTES FftOM DIAEY KEPT AT QUICKIOCK. 143 



sinew," after spending four very interesting and 

 pleasant months in this "land of forest and fell." 

 I made a very good collection both of birds and 

 eggs. I added about thirty new authentic eggs to 

 my own private collection ; I obtained many birds 

 in a state of plumage in which we never see them 

 but in Lapland ; and what was better, I had an 

 opportunity of studying the habits of many of our 

 rarer British birds at that most interesting time 

 of all, the breeding season (and the few observa- 

 tions which I made will be faithfully chronicled 

 hereafter) ; but, what was best of all, I left Quick- 

 iock with the good wishes of all the village, for 

 the little money that I had spent among its poor 

 inhabitants in the summer would help them to 

 obtain many little comforts for the next long and 

 dreary winter which they must have gone without 

 had I not come up. 



When we left Quickiock the highest fells were 

 still covered with snow, which never melts, and, 

 in many of the chasms between the fells, I have 

 no doubt lies 100 feet deep, the accumulation 

 of ages. 



