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    A VISIT TO HAND A. * , 37

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    lay the the sunli green ght , — pellucid while below water us , the , bottom clothed damp covered with g many with varieties the rich , of sea-weed , while the rocks beside edible us were the nativeof this and

    other Ted dulse coasts , so . muc As h we prized lay there as an , the gulls by wheeled and s clamoured and hooted above us , and the gray-back or the herring like - ominous gull , we

    could not tell whichuttered a low hoarse sound , an foreboding their sanctities of evil until to , the we rash confess intruders to a who " bog were ie ' sort thus of invading feeling

    into creep the ing open over sea us , . , and and a we sense left of the relief " awesome as the " boat place threw glide behind d once tls more .

    fishing iscatorial Gentl line y rowing tastes over the in as we stern the had shadow , baited hoped of with speedil the a cliffs sand y proved , -eel we , which irresistible a delicacy deep- to sea to a

    fine p lthewho made , his appearance , in the boat , resplendent in gold from his g y lory the , nose soon to dimmed the tail , — and a , perfect hj the beaut time y of we the reached with deep;— mouth shore but , what wide alas ,

    had been so beautiful had become dull and stiff , a painful open and manifestations agape , which of made human us mortalit shrink as y . from its _Nevertheless white one of semi the , trans when most

    our parent life l and ythe flakes its made dimmed of its delicat appearance deformit e meat , we of at death table forgot , with and alike did its amp golden le justic glory - e to of - y

    , this delicacy of northern seas—sic transit munclus ! But we have not yet done with discerned Handa far and out its wond the ers . waters Soon

    after the lythe was secured , we on , - large apparentl bird y — basking larger much in the it seemed sunshine than and herring taking -gull its or noon grey bath -back , a ;

    w and ith so a indeed feast of it proved herrings to , be asleep , for the on bird the was water a while Solan goose the in laborious , glutted

    process on . These of di Solan gesting geese such , our a meal friend as told he had us ,, indul are sometimes ged was caug going ht

    while deavored in thi to s approach condition the ; and bird under in question his direction , but , _cautiotisl , our rowers y as they

    enrowedthe Solan goose was either not yet soundly asleep or was beg ere inning we , could to recover get near from him the took stupef his ying heavy effects flig of ht his west gluttony , graduall , and y

    flapp As ing we himself neared the out point of our where ken . we were to land billed and visit species Handa of

    on footcormorants and a large , long-legged , longkittawake gull , called , s on the the oyster rock - s catcher while , the took graceful the place sea- of swallow guillemots skimmed and

    walking _throug around h the over the boat the air , . fine and It herbage , was , with among rap of the id these island curves rocks , now and we entirel sweex landed y _^ s , given , circled and tup ,

    A Visit To Hand A. * , 37

    A VISIT TO HAND A . * , 37

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/37/