128 WHITE-TAILED EAGLE 
remembered two Eagles building in the high rocks over- 
hanging the sea, and that they were destroyed in a 
snowstorm, which occurred at the time that a vessel called 
the Buzzard was wrecked, about fifty years ago. They 
were found dead in a farmyard under the snow. Another 
and older man to whom I spoke said that he remembered 
that an Eagle was found dead under the snow at the same 
time. The first said that they had been in the habit of 
breeding in the rocks for years before they were destroyed, 
but that none had bred there since. I cannot tell you 
anything more about them, nor can I say that they were Sea 
Eagles, though they nested in the high rocks overhanging 
the sea.” (‘At south end of the island’ is here pencilled 
with quotation marks, says Mr. Moffat, in Mr. More’s 
writing, evidently from one of Mr. Crellin’s earlier letters.) 
About 1900 Mr. J. C. Bacon told me that, in conversation 
with Mr. Quayle, an elderly man residing at Lhingague in 
Rushen, the latter told him that in the early years of last 
century eagles bred at a place which bears the suggestive 
name of Ernery’ (on the ordnance sheet ‘ Eairnyerey’) 
between Fleshwick and Dalby, a little south of the 
Slock. 
The site of the eyrie has a wildness and sternness befitting 
its former occupants. The crag itself, perhaps two hundred 
feet high (for ordnance contours are lacking over most of 
Man), is ajutting corner of a great uncultivated ridge of one 
thousand feet, whose huge higher brows dwarf it when seen 
from a distance together with it. It faces northward, and 
is almost entirely sheer and bare, the richness of vegetation 
1 Orn in Icelandic=Eagle. It will be remembered that though Norse must 
have been used in Man by a portion of the population for hundreds of years, and 
many of our place-names are derived from it, it has been extinct here as a spoken 
language for at least five ceuturies, and the fact that a place named from the 
Eagle not later than the fourteenth century retained an eyrie to the nineteenth is 
remarkable. 
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