Primroses and Daisies in early March--"The Posie"--Burns--"The Ancient Mariner"--William Tennant, Author of "Anster Fair"--Hebridean Epithalamium--A Bard's Blessing--A Translation--Macleod of Berneray, 1 CHAPTER II. Autumnal Tints--Solomon and the Queen of Sheba--Sortes Sacræ--Sortes Virgilianæ--Charles the First and Lord Falkland--Virgilius the Magician--Thomas of Ercildoune, 8 CHAPTER III. An old Gaelic MS.--"The Bewitched Bachelor Unbewitched"--Fairy Lore--Lacteal Libations on Fairy Knowes, 18 CHAPTER IV. Transit of Mercury--Improperly called an "Eclipse" of--November Meteors--Mr. Huggins--Spectrum Analyses of Cometary Light--Translation of a St. Kilda Song, 23 CHAPTER V. Bird Music--The Skylark's Song--Imitation of, by a French Poet--Alasdair Macdonald--Scott, 29 CHAPTER VI. Severe Drought--The Drive by Coach from Fort-William to Kingussie--Breakfast at Moy--Where did Scott find Dominie Sampson's "Pro-di-gi-ous!"?--Professor Blackie's Poem on Glencoe, 33 CHAPTER VII. O the Barren, Barren Shore--Brilliant Auroral Display--Intense Cold--Birds--Glanders--Scribblings on the Back of One Pound Notes, 39 CHAPTER VIII. A Wet February--A Good Time coming--Sir Walter Scott--Mr Gladstone--Death of Sir David Brewster, 44 CHAPTER IX. Long-Line Fishing--Scarcity of Fish--Their Fecundity--Large Specimen of the Raia Chagrinea--The Wolf Fish--The Devil Fish, 50 CHAPTER X. Birds--Contest between a Heron and an Eel, 54 CHAPTER XI. Sea-Fishing--Loch and Stream Fishing--"Brindled Worms"--Rush-Lights--Buckie-Shell Lamps--The Weasel killing a Hare--Killing a Fallow Deer Fawn, 58 CHAPTER XII. Extraordinary aspect of the Sun--Sunset from Rokeby--Mr. Glaisher--"Demoiselle" or Numidian Crane at Deerness--The Snowy Owl in Sutherlandshire--Does the Fieldfare breed in Scotland?--The Woodcock, 66 CHAPTER XIII. Extraordinary Heat and Drought--Plentifulness of Fungi--Cows fond of Mushrooms--Shoals of Whales--A rippling breeze, and a Sail on Loch Leven, 70 CHAPTER XIV. Herrings--Chimæra Monstrosa--Cure for Ringworm--Cold Tea Leaves for inflamed and blood-shot Eyes--An old Incantation for the cure of Sore Eyes--A curious Dirk Sheath--A Tannery of Human Skins, 73 CHAPTER XV. The Ring-Dove--A Pet Ring-Dove--Its Death--Shenstone--The Belone Vulgaris or Gar-Fish--A Rat and a Kilmarnock Night-cap--Extraordinary Roebuck's Head at Ardgour, 79 CHAPTER XVI.