. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . Grey Seals about Six Weeks Old, showing the Variation in CHAPTER V ARDNAMURCHAN Jutting out into the Atlantic there stands, far removed fromciviHzation, a wild headland. Many ships have passed itby on the sea, and their crews, maybe, have looked curi-ously at the grandeur and strength of its outline, but fewpersons have ever set foot upon its rough weather-beatensurface. On its cliffs the golden eagle has its home, andin former times the erne or sea eagle was wont to neston its inaccessible ledges. On
. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . Grey Seals about Six Weeks Old, showing the Variation in CHAPTER V ARDNAMURCHAN Jutting out into the Atlantic there stands, far removed fromciviHzation, a wild headland. Many ships have passed itby on the sea, and their crews, maybe, have looked curi-ously at the grandeur and strength of its outline, but fewpersons have ever set foot upon its rough weather-beatensurface. On its cliffs the golden eagle has its home, andin former times the erne or sea eagle was wont to neston its inaccessible ledges. On quiet dciys of early springravens sail and tumble above its rocks, and one may hearthe shrill, mournful cry of the buzzard as she leaves hereyrie. Near by is the haunt of the wild cat, now a fastvanishing species in the Highlands, and as early asFebruary she has been known to produce her young inthe rocky cairns above the reach of the waves. It is, I think, on the wildest of winter days that thegrandeur of the headland is most apparent. Is not itsvery name Ardnamor-chuan—The Point of the Ocean?And indeed, the sea which thunders on its rocks
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