CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VII. 



PAGR 



the Barren, Barren Shore — Brilliant Auroral Display — Intense Cold — 



Birds — Glanders — Scribblinga on the Back of One Pound Notes, . 39 



CHAPTER VIII. 



A Wet February — A Good Time coming — Sir Walter Scott — Mr 



Gladstone — Death of Sir David Brewster, ..... 44 



CHAPTER IX. 



Long-Line Fishing — Scarcity of Fish — Their Fecundity — Large Speci- 

 men of the Raia Cliagrinea— The Wolf Fish— The Devil Fish, . 50 



CHAPTER X. 

 Birds — Contest between a Heron and an Eel, ..... 54 



CHAPTER XL 



Sea-Fishing — Loch and Stream Fishing — " Brindled Worms" — Rush- 

 Lights — Buokie-Shell Lamps — The Weasel killing a Hare — Killing 

 a Fallow Deer Fawn, 58 



CHAPTER XII. 



Extraordinary aspect of the Sun — Sunset from Rokeby — Mr. Glaisher — 

 " Demoiselle " or Numidian Crane at Deemess — The Snowy Owl in 

 Sutherlandshire — Does the Fieldfare breed in Scotland. ? — The Wood- 

 cock 66 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Extraordinary Heat and Drought — Plentifulness of Fungi — Cows fond 

 of Mushrooms — Shoals of Whales — A rippling breeze, and a Sail on 

 Loch Leveu, 70 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Herrings — Ohimcera Monstrosa — Cure for Ringworm — Cold Tea Leaves 

 for inflamed and blood-shot Eyes — An old Incantation for the cure of 

 Sore Eyes — A curious Dirk Sheath— A Tannery of Human Skins, 73 



