. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . oughroad leading through it is untrodden for days on end. During winter, too, great gales from the south-westand west, sweeping straight from off the surface of thebroad Atlantic, sigh and moan through the glen, drivingbefore them stinging showers of sleet and rain, so that itis almost impossible to walk against the storm, and theglen is filled with gloom and stern grandeur. The raven has his home in the glen. On still days, whenthe hills are purple, and when the view is wide and clear,one can hear him croaking h
. The land of the hills and the glens; wild life in Iona and the Inner Hebrides . oughroad leading through it is untrodden for days on end. During winter, too, great gales from the south-westand west, sweeping straight from off the surface of thebroad Atlantic, sigh and moan through the glen, drivingbefore them stinging showers of sleet and rain, so that itis almost impossible to walk against the storm, and theglen is filled with gloom and stern grandeur. The raven has his home in the glen. On still days, whenthe hills are purple, and when the view is wide and clear,one can hear him croaking huskily from afar, and can seehim, accompanied maybe by his mate, forging his waywith pow^erful wing-beats to some far-off rock where hehas his nest. The eagle formerly bred in the glen, and even withoutleaving the track one can see the small rock where, over-looking a dark loch—Loch Airdglas—the hen bird broodedher two speckled eggs in early spring. Now the rock istaken over by a pair of ravens and the eagle has there are in plenty in the glen. How closely 32. •s ^
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