. The birds of Iona & Mull. Birds. LETTER XX. 137 greed and gluttony. Milton supposes Satan to have entered its form before assuming that of a serpent. " Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree, and highest there that grew, Sat like a ; Indeed, the sepulchral gloom of its dark, dank abode, its sombre plumage, melancholy aspect, its silence, but rarely broken, and then only by a sad foreboding croak, might all join to inspire a ^„,ir'i''*'"7^«?r. sort of prejudice against the poor bird, independently of his rather dirty habits. And truly his cave
. The birds of Iona & Mull. Birds. LETTER XX. 137 greed and gluttony. Milton supposes Satan to have entered its form before assuming that of a serpent. " Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree, and highest there that grew, Sat like a ; Indeed, the sepulchral gloom of its dark, dank abode, its sombre plumage, melancholy aspect, its silence, but rarely broken, and then only by a sad foreboding croak, might all join to inspire a ^„,ir'i''*'"7^«?r. sort of prejudice against the poor bird, independently of his rather dirty habits. And truly his cave does not smell savoury; and even from the rock out in the open sea, where groups of these grave- looking citizens of the deep sit and rest themselves on their return from the fishery business, when approached to leeward, a breeze is borne down upon us very unlike what is wafted off the balmy Spice Islands, but rather such as we might expect from a city of Esquimaux when holding high wassail in brimming beakers tapped from a stranded Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Graham, Henry Davenport, l825-1872. Edinburgh, D. Douglas
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