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hne he del ^ _°*S® 'og “s heavy breath, and seeing a tempting 
lane he deternimed to make the ascent by irimself. “The lane 
soon became a footpath beside a avaterconrse bordered with fe n 
tW f ■ r'" of ‘”go dragon-flies and 
11 puiple-clonded wings, and more biilterflics than I had 
seen tins jmar. The ‘ eloudcd yellow,’ • the gate-keeper,’ ‘ small 
shiS r“ grasshoppers there really were hundreds of larks 
fSo be ™tk “ “ “ MoAndrew always 
nmit he f ® °" plait ! ” On the 
i.nmit he found no mountain plants “but only foxgloves and 
chistorfn ^ beneath the huge grey masses of micl-slate, and 
steiing white stone-crop, and a dwarf Star of Eethlehem.” 
to Mr HeT^’ company with Mr. Etheridge, 
^ amte of the island is so regularly bedded, that you might think the 
great piles of ^cheeses” were no different from Lasses M limestonr 
t the extremity there were some flocks of gulls and gannets 
clamouring loudly as they wheeled past, or fishing in the deep sea 
below, ihe season for birds is over now. A month ago there were 
thousands here, aidutening all the rocks. The puffins breed in the 
lock, li e black cormorants fish up branches of coral (Gorgonia 
vermcosaj with their sharp bills and make a sort of nest.” ' 
uriiig the course of his life my father fiirnislied much assi.s- 
c nee to the authors of the Monographs of the ralicontogra])hical 
Society, acknowledged l,y Darwin, Davidson, Wright, and others • 
