8 ORNITHOLOGICAL RAMBLES. 



induced by its genial influence was peculiarly refresh- 

 ing and grateful. 



" Jam veris comites quse mare temperant 

 Impellunt airimse lintea Thraciae ; 

 Jam nee prata rigent nee fluvii strepunt 

 Hiberna nive turgidi." HOK. 



Never does the serenity and beauty of fair weather 

 more completely recommend itself to the senses than 

 when a sudden and unexpected condition of the same 

 succeeds a prolonged continuance of tempestuous and 

 elementine war. 



The state of my health having detained me indoors 

 for many consecutive hours, I loaded my gun as the 

 day declined, and wandered in the calm of the soft 

 light evening, following the road that winds for some 

 four miles along the rough pebbly shore of this very 

 picturesque marine inlet. As the distance between 

 the old town and myself became visibly prolonged, and 

 the wilder and more unfrequented portions of the 

 route were, at every successive step, and round each 

 gently winding slope, more spaciously developed and 

 exposed to view, the lazy tide just hesitating at the 

 lowest ebb, the gleaming masses of broad red sea- 

 weed floating like ribbons on the placid water, the par- 

 tridges calling on the uplands, the oriental softness of 

 the atmosphere, coupled with the excessive stillness of 

 all surrounding nature, contributed to form a scene, 



