From the pioneer cemetery looking across Mabou Harbour, the spruce
trees have claimed the high hill where sheep and cattle once grazed.
Malcom Finlay R. MacDonald once said, “In the 1920’s there was hardly
a tree on these hills.” The light green at centre mid left is brush infilling
from fields abandoned in the past generation.

Mu choinneimh cladh nan tùsairean thar Acarsaid Mhàbu, tha an spruis
air sealbh a ghabhail air a’chnoc àrd far am b’àbhaist crodh is caoraich a
bhith‘g ionaltradh. Thuirt Calum Fhionnlaigh R.Dòmhnallach aon uair:
“mu thimcheall 1920, cha mhòr gun robh craobh air na cnuic sin.” Se
barrach a th’anns an aotrom ghorm ‘s a’mheadhain air an taobh chlì agus
e air lìonadh asteach bho na pàircean a thrèig na Gàidheil.

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