Rocks and Rivers: Or Highland Wanderings Over Crag and Correi, "flood and Fell.".John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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Page 67
... divers . In very severe weather , especially during a snow - storm , both ducks and wigeon are apt to trust to the diving tribe as their purveyors . It would be difficult for any one who has not witnessed it , to imagine the supply left ...
... divers . In very severe weather , especially during a snow - storm , both ducks and wigeon are apt to trust to the diving tribe as their purveyors . It would be difficult for any one who has not witnessed it , to imagine the supply left ...
Page 68
... dives are very short , and it is probable that at this time they are feeding on some water - insect which they could not find at the margin . In winter they never feed farther from shore than they can sound the bottom , by sinking their ...
... dives are very short , and it is probable that at this time they are feeding on some water - insect which they could not find at the margin . In winter they never feed farther from shore than they can sound the bottom , by sinking their ...
Page 73
... diving and feeding together , on the Inch Tavannach side of the straits . Saw it would be a most difficult stalk , and , from the nature of the ground , that I could only get a flying right and left . So it turned out ; a long circuit ...
... diving and feeding together , on the Inch Tavannach side of the straits . Saw it would be a most difficult stalk , and , from the nature of the ground , that I could only get a flying right and left . So it turned out ; a long circuit ...
Page 74
... diving friends . Leaving gamekeeper in the house , I took a crouching stretch along the south shore , and , as the ... dive was a short one . Dive after dive - shorter and shorter . At last it could not get out of sight , and I ...
... diving friends . Leaving gamekeeper in the house , I took a crouching stretch along the south shore , and , as the ... dive was a short one . Dive after dive - shorter and shorter . At last it could not get out of sight , and I ...
Page 76
... I were soon on the qui vive . They were diving within a near shot , on the opposite side of the bay . When I succeeded in getting within fifty yards , a piece of white ice gave way under my foot . They did not 76 THE PEAT ISLAND .
... I were soon on the qui vive . They were diving within a near shot , on the opposite side of the bay . When I succeeded in getting within fifty yards , a piece of white ice gave way under my foot . They did not 76 THE PEAT ISLAND .
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