On an Irish jaunting-car through Donegal and Connemara . he sea for multitude. Some ofthese birds migrate from Norway, lay oneegg, and when the young are able theyreturn home, only to come back againeach succeeding summer. There aremany varieties of them, in part consistingof guillemots, sheldrakes, cormorants, theshag, the gannet, the stormy petrel, thespeckled diver, and the sea-parrot. Onevariety will fly with greater ease under aboat when pursuing fish than it can in theair, and in the clear water they may beseen at great depths, using their wings inthis way. They have seen but few men,and
On an Irish jaunting-car through Donegal and Connemara . he sea for multitude. Some ofthese birds migrate from Norway, lay oneegg, and when the young are able theyreturn home, only to come back againeach succeeding summer. There aremany varieties of them, in part consistingof guillemots, sheldrakes, cormorants, theshag, the gannet, the stormy petrel, thespeckled diver, and the sea-parrot. Onevariety will fly with greater ease under aboat when pursuing fish than it can in theair, and in the clear water they may beseen at great depths, using their wings inthis way. They have seen but few men,and do not rise when approached. Theircawing and cries are fearful and awe-in-spiring, owing to the vast numbers of birdsthat are always in the air or on the whole panorama as seen from theboat is something the beholder will re-member as long as he lives. We also saw many seals close to theboat; these live on salmon. Mr. Stewartused to pay a crown each for their scalps,but since retiring he has withdrawn thebonus and they are now increasing in24. TEMPLE ARCH, HORN HEAD, COUNTY DONEGAL DUNFANAGHY TO FALLCARRAGH numbers. The sea is very lumpy at thehead, owing to the squalls that blow downover the cliffs; we encountered half a dozen,and any one of them would have put asailboat out of commission in a few keep a great ground-swell in constantmotion, and the boat rose and fell on thesewaves like a cork in a whirlpool. Whenrowing home we passed a salmon net ata jutting point, with one end of its ropefastened to the rocks. We asked why hadsuch a place been selected when there wereso many others easier to get at, and theman replied: Salmon are queer fish;they have a path round the headlandswhen going to the spawning - grounds,and never leave it. If that net were movedout fifty yards it would never catch asalmon/ Two men were perched on asmall ledge close to the water, watchingthe net against seals, as the latter willtear the fish out of the nets with the ferocityof
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