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the far slope of the hill, and we came to the shealing, 

 and found all waiting. 



Here we had some goat's milk. Capital it is, 

 and would be an improvement on London cream. 

 After a short rest we moved again, and soon got 

 to the lochs, which lie in an extensive hollow, sur- 

 rounded with gloomy-looking hills, steep, stony, and 

 desolate. 



Archie now loosed an old pointer, and Ward and 

 Fred went on to work. After watching their sport 

 for a little, Major Duncan and I went off to the 

 heights, to examine this wilderness, and forage for 

 plants. 



For an hour or two we explored through bog-holes 

 and rocky crevices^ and the Major was enriched 

 with some rare Alpine plants, and bagging a huge 

 specimen of the dragon-fly; but he found the rocks 

 of no particular interest to the geologist, being mostly 

 common gneiss. 



We continued the researches for some time, until 

 the fewness of the shots heard from below told us 

 that the snipe-grounds were about beat out, and we 

 rejoined the sportsmen. 



Ward told us that all about the swamp they 

 had found lots of snipe, nicely scattered, and that if 



