...all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose Or the swan through the summer-sea. The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark, and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay The cormorant had found ; And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered in that wondrous dome, Where,...

...my father was born. It is one of that cluster of the Hebrides thus alluded to by Walter Scott:— " 'And Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay, That guard famed Staffs, round.'* " Our grandfather was intimately acquainted with all the traditionary legends which...

...of our readers, recommending the work itself * " The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And TJlra dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Stafla round. Then all unknown its columns rose. Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had...

...vault1 a tribe expires ! The bones which strew that cavern's gloom, Too well attest their dismal doom. Merrily, merrily goes the bark" On a breeze from the...Staffa round.* Then all unknown its columns rose. We coolil almost be tempted to believe that he waa on bit return from Skye when he wrote this portion...

...fore-ground. After another half-hour, we steered to the southward, and fully realized the words of Scott:— Merrily, merrily, goes the bark, On a breeze from...group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round. The Treshnish Isles were in view, and appeared to be composed entirely of trap rock, presenting an...

...fore-ground. After another half-hour, we steered to the southward, and fully realized the words of Scott:— Merrily, merrily, goes the bark, On a breeze from...Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Stafta round. The Treshnish Isles were in view, and appeared to be composed entirely of trap rock,...

...the northward free : So shoots through the morning-sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer-sea. The shores of Mull on the eastward lay. And Ulva dark,...Colonsay ; And all the* group of islets gay That guard fumed Staffa round : There all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant...

...So shoots through the morning-sky the lark, Ur the swan through the snmmcr-sea. The shores of Hull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark, and Colonsay; And all the group of islets gay That guard Fumed Stafla round : There all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant...

...merrily goes the bark* On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the Inrk, Or the swan through the summer sea. The shores of...Staffa round.* Then all unknown its columns rose, We could almost be tempted to believe that he wa« on his return from Skye when he wrote this jionion...

...blazing heath blockades the path ; In dense and stifling volumes rolled, The vapor filled the caverned hold ! The warrior-threat, the infant's plain, The...Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered in that wondrous...