. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . e day-break when mid-night is past but an hour. To the lochan red deer rarely find their way. Foodis scarce on the granite-strewn slopes, and the going issteep, even for a stag. Peace is in the glen always, forthis part of the forest is a sanctuary, and no rifle breaksthe stillness of the corrie or the great glen at any the dark nights of October, maybe, when asoutherly wind brings rain and mist low on the hills, theroaring of the stags in the glen below is wafted gently upto the lochan, or as the gri
. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . e day-break when mid-night is past but an hour. To the lochan red deer rarely find their way. Foodis scarce on the granite-strewn slopes, and the going issteep, even for a stag. Peace is in the glen always, forthis part of the forest is a sanctuary, and no rifle breaksthe stillness of the corrie or the great glen at any the dark nights of October, maybe, when asoutherly wind brings rain and mist low on the hills, theroaring of the stags in the glen below is wafted gently upto the lochan, or as the grip of the frost is loosened inspring and the snow becomes soft, an avalanche thundersfrom the cornice fringing the ridge above and piles upits debris on the ice-bound waters. The roaring of suchan avalanche strikes on the ear like the muttering of dis-tant thunder as the great blocks of snow and ice rushwith ever-increasing speed and enormous bounds to LochanUaine. Even during the long days of June it is late before thesun strikes on the dark waters of the lochan, for south- 68.
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