A Hebridean Island and its Birds 



island before rising in a body and setting their course for 

 Spitzbergen. There, or in kindred lands set far beyond the 

 Arctic Circle, they remain during the short northern summer, 

 making their nests about the precipices that approach the 

 Eternal Snows — nor do they think further of the island which 

 gave them food and shelter when all the Arctic lands were fast 

 in the grip of the ice and snow. 



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