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great height. And now she rises again into 

 the air; what an extraordinary sight! 



HAL. She is pursuing her prey, and is 

 one of our fraternity, a catcher of fish. 

 She has missed her quarry this time, and 

 has moved further down towards the river, 

 and falls again from a great height. There ! 

 You see her rise with a fish in her talons. 



POIET. She gives an interest which I 

 hardly expected to have found to this scene. 

 Pray are there many of these animals in this 

 country ? 



HAL. Of this species, I have seen but 

 these two, and I believe the young ones mi- 

 grate as soon as they can provide for them- 

 selves; for this solitary bird requires a large 

 space to move and feed in, and does not 

 allow its offspring to partake its reign, or to 

 live near it. Of other species of the eagle, 

 there are some in different parts of the 

 mountains, particularly of the Osprey; and 

 of the great fishing or brown eagle ; and I 

 once saw a very fine and interesting sight 

 in one of the Crags of Ben Weevis, near 

 Strathgarve, as I was going, on the 20th of 



