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186 THE HISTORYthis iland," says he*, '' there's a couple of ravens,which beat away all ravenous fowls; and whentheir young are able to fly abroad, they beat themalso out of the iland, but not without many blowsand a great noise." In this iland, moreover, toremark a further agreement with Artemidorus,there's a fresh-water lake call'd Loch-bruist, wheremany land and sea-fowl build. He tells usf elsewhereof another such couple, which are of thesame inhospitable, or rather cautious and frugaldisposition, in a little iland near North-Uist ; andstill of such another couple J,in all respects, uponthe ile of Troda near Sky. But as eagles were noless birds of augury, than ravens, the doctor, inhis account of a littleiland near the greater oneof Lewis §, says, that he saw a couple of eaglesthere; which, as the natives assur'd him, wou'dnever suffer any other of their kind to continue inthe iland : driving away their own young ones, assoon as they are able to fly. The natives told himfurther, that those eagles are so careful of theplace of their abode, that they never kill'danysheep or lamb in the iland; tho' the bones oflambs, fawns, and wild-fowl, are frequently foundin and about tlieir nests:so that they make theirpurchase in the opposite ilands, the nearest ofwhich is a league distant.There's such anothercouple of eagles, and as tender of injuring theirnative country, on the north end of St.Kilda||,* Page 47. + Page 60. t Page 166. ^ Page 26. |jPage 299.