. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . gs were seento gain the ridge and to look down into the white seabelow. An intense silence was everywhere; one missed the lowcroaking of the ptarmigan and the dark form of the eagleas he soared high above the plateau. As compared with the summits of the CairngormMountains, the absence of plant life on Ben Nevis is striking,for on the Cairngorms even the highest grounds are at thisseason tinged with red from the many plants of the cushionpink (Silene acaulis) in full blossom. Although the summitof Ben Nevis is qui
. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . gs were seento gain the ridge and to look down into the white seabelow. An intense silence was everywhere; one missed the lowcroaking of the ptarmigan and the dark form of the eagleas he soared high above the plateau. As compared with the summits of the CairngormMountains, the absence of plant life on Ben Nevis is striking,for on the Cairngorms even the highest grounds are at thisseason tinged with red from the many plants of the cushionpink (Silene acaulis) in full blossom. Although the summitof Ben Nevis is quite devoid of vegetation, I came across anumber of plants of the starry saxifrage at an elevationof quite four thousand three hundred feet, and a speciesof Carex was seen even above this height. Among the precipitous rocks on the north-east face ofthe hillside a considerable amount of snow still remained,and, indeed, one of these snowfields has never been knownto disappear entirely even during the hottest summer. Thehill carrying the most extensive snowfields, as seen from my 4.
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