Identifier: cu31924001564347 (find matches)
Title: Wanderings of a naturalist
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Gordon, Seton Paul, 1887-1977
Subjects: Natural history Birds Naturalists
Publisher: London, New York(etc.) Cassell and Company Ltd.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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fine day during our stay onthe island, though it gave us little sun for the purpose ofphotography. On that morning, from the high ground ofMingulay, hill and island for many miles lay clear aroundus. Some thirty miles south, Skerryvore and its lighthouse 103 Wanderings of a Naturalist rose from the grey waters. Tiree and its hills were darkand clear, and even beyond Tiree the smoke of a steamer wasdistinct. All the sea birds of Mingulay revelled in the calmair of this isolated day of summer, and it was good to sitand watch them at their family duties. But with afternoonan ominous ring encircled the sun, and before night a fresh-ening southerly breeze and falling glass foretold of moreunsettled weather to come. The remaining days of our staywere gloomy and misty, and on Augtist 9, the day on whichwe left Mingulay, a north-westerly wind, with winter in itsbreath, was sweeping the cliffs and once more bringing inthe great seas, which are rarely quiet about this remoteAtlantic island. 104
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