I produce of the Summer. In one o f the little conie huts, I
E d a little infant afleep, under the protection o f a faithful
K e f s , on foot, a large plain o f ground, feemingly improveable,
but covered with a deep heath, and perfedly in a ftate of na-
I gee the arSic-gull, a bird unknown in South Britain, which
B r e e d s here on the ground: it was very tame, but, if difturbed,
I Jew about like the lapwing, but with a more flagging wing. After
a walk of four miles, reach the Paps : left the lefler to the South
lEaft, preferring the afcent of the greateft, for there are three;
mm-a-cbaolois, or, the mountain of the found ; Beinn-Jheunta, or,
th e hallowed mountain; and Beinn-an-oir, or, the mountain o f
igold. We began to fcale the laft; a talk of much labor and
I difficulty; being eompofed of vaft ftones, ilightly covered with
■liofles near the bafe, but all above bare, and unconnected with
leach other. The whole feems a cairn, the work o f the fons of
WSttm-, and Ovid might have caught his idea from this' hill, had.
Bfeen it,
Affe&affe ferunt regnum celefte Gigantic,
Altaque congeftos ftruxifle ad iidera montes*.
j§ain the top, and find our fatigues fully recompenced by the grandeur
of the profpeCt from this fublime fpo t: "Jura itfelf afforded a
' fcpendous fcene o f rock, varied with little lakes innumerable,
from the Weft fide of the hill ran a narrow ftripe o f rock, termi-
1 Bating in the fea, called, the Jlide of the old hag. T o the South
Pipeared Bay, extended like a map beneath us ; and beyond that,
the North of Ireland; to the Weft, Gigha and Cara, Cantyre and
B Arran,
Ar c t ic gull*
P aps op J ura.