It is all in the solitary grandeur of heather- haired hills, which tinge, with their purple flush, the huge, black- winged clouds that alight upon them.

Only here and there a shepherd's cottage is to be seen half way up the heights, or sheltering itself in a clump of trees in glen or gorge, like a benighted traveller bivouacking for a night in a desert.

Sheep, of the Cheviot breed mostly, are nearly the sole inhabitants and industrials of this mountainous waste.

They climb to the highest peaks and bring down the white wealth of their wool to man.

It was pleasant to see them like walking mites, flecking the dark brows of the mountains.