. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . In tJic Heart of the Hill Country,. Looking Westward across the Forest: The Mists gathering en the Distant Hill. The Big Glen —higher than for many months—and the sea was heavy,so that one could see the surf breaking- on the rocks outof the gloom and mist. The hills were invisible. Eventheir outlines were hidden by the blackness, and all throughthe night the rain continued to fall in fierce blasts. And so we gave over the glen into the keeping of itsown hills and left it, the home of many pleasant memories,with h
. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . In tJic Heart of the Hill Country,. Looking Westward across the Forest: The Mists gathering en the Distant Hill. The Big Glen —higher than for many months—and the sea was heavy,so that one could see the surf breaking- on the rocks outof the gloom and mist. The hills were invisible. Eventheir outlines were hidden by the blackness, and all throughthe night the rain continued to fall in fierce blasts. And so we gave over the glen into the keeping of itsown hills and left it, the home of many pleasant memories,with hearts that were sad at the parting. 37 CHAPTER VIII THE LIFE OF A PTARMIGAN Rising steeply from the Sound of Mull, and overlooking itsquiet waters, is the hill known to the Gael as Dun daGhaoithe, or, translated into English, the Hill of theTwo Winds. Few birds of any kind live their lives onits wind-scarred slopes, but around the summit cairn two orthree—I do not think so many as half a dozen—pairs ofptarmigan have their haunt. To a certain extent, I think, the ptarmigan of thewestern coast differ in th
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