. Wanderings of a naturalist . Sgoran Dubh : A Pilgrim in Snowy Ben MacDhui in across on to Cairngorm from the hill-top. Sgoran Dubh: An Autumn Snowfall of the Spey the sun shone warmly, but on the high tops therewas no sunshine, and night descended early, so that even thesnow did not lighten the gloom. In the Forest of Rothie-murchus stag answered stag in the stillness of the evening,and away northward shafts of light pierced the sky as theAurora flickered in the regions about the Pole. 53 CHAPTER XXXIII BERRIES OF THE HILLS SUMMER is gone. Already the high tops hav
. Wanderings of a naturalist . Sgoran Dubh : A Pilgrim in Snowy Ben MacDhui in across on to Cairngorm from the hill-top. Sgoran Dubh: An Autumn Snowfall of the Spey the sun shone warmly, but on the high tops therewas no sunshine, and night descended early, so that even thesnow did not lighten the gloom. In the Forest of Rothie-murchus stag answered stag in the stillness of the evening,and away northward shafts of light pierced the sky as theAurora flickered in the regions about the Pole. 53 CHAPTER XXXIII BERRIES OF THE HILLS SUMMER is gone. Already the high tops have re-ceived their second coating of autumn snow, and thebirches and hill grasses show golden and brownagainst the dark hillsides. It is now that the berries of thehills are at their best. As yet they are untouched by thefrosts, and the tribe of the grouse and ptarmigan have notthinned their numbers, so that everywhere one may wanderon the hills they are things to delight the eye by reason oftheir rich and delicate colouring. Of them all perhaps the two best known spec
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