. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . of spring andsummer, and it is not until September that they take up theirquarters on the islands rocks. In ushering its young into the world in late September,or during the early days of October, the grey seal is almostunique among the mammals of this hemisphere. Up to afew years ago its numbers were steadily decreasing, andit is probable that the seals would have been exterminatedby this time were it not for the fact that an Act of Parliament,passed a few years back, makes it illegal to shoot the seals,young or
. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . of spring andsummer, and it is not until September that they take up theirquarters on the islands rocks. In ushering its young into the world in late September,or during the early days of October, the grey seal is almostunique among the mammals of this hemisphere. Up to afew years ago its numbers were steadily decreasing, andit is probable that the seals would have been exterminatedby this time were it not for the fact that an Act of Parliament,passed a few years back, makes it illegal to shoot the seals,young or old, from October i to November 30. During the first week of November in the year of whichI write, fine clear weather prevailed along the Atlantic sea-board—in marked distinction to the storms of wind andrain experienced on the East coast—and the waters of theocean were untroubled by even the slightest swell. Before the first light of dawn appeared in the east Istarted out on my way for the harbour, whence commencesthe long sail that lay between me and the seals rock. 16. oo H z <z a as UZ <H Q O en U o H O 39< M
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