76 TOUR IN SUTHERLAND. CH. V. 



warbler was cheering his mate with his sweet and 

 constant song. 



I saw some seals playing the most extraordinary 

 gambols in the smooth water. The sea was as calm 

 as possible, and like a mirror every where, excepting 

 where these animals were swimming after each other 

 in a circle, so rapidly that their track resembled a 

 complete whirlpool. Occasionally they lifted them- 

 selves perpendicularly up in the water, showing half 

 their bodies, and looking as like the representation 

 of a mermaid as possible. 



I should have liked to prolong my stay had it 

 been in my power to do so, as there is much to 

 interest the visitor, both in the varied and magni- 

 ficent scenery of land and water, and also in the 

 numerous wild animals, common enough here, but 

 rare in tlie more southern parts of the country. 



