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hill-tops, and get home by another route. So we 

 left the guns, &c., to be taken back, and started. 



The walking soon became rather queer at one 

 place steep and rocky, and at the next down slippery 

 braes or treacherous bogs ; but, on the whole, it was 

 not unpleasant, as at every new peak we had a 

 fresh breeze and change of view ; besides, the 

 heather is seldom tall in these high tops, and we 

 could walk freely, and frequently came on parts as 

 smooth as a cricket-field, if not as level. 



We were now in the region of the blue hares, and 

 saw a great many, not without resolve on a grand 

 beat for them some day. 



There are no ptarmigan on this side; they are 

 found only on our higher ranges of mountain on the 

 west. 



When near the north march, I pointed out to 

 Ward the black wood and my line of journey the 

 other day. Still we did not now go so far, but 

 turned down by some green knolls with rocky faces 

 and great stones strewed about, and where we saw 

 lots of rabbits. Archie says he gets his chief supplies 

 from here, and that we might any day get some good 

 shooting with the ferrets. 



On coming down on the low moors, we saw a 



