McGrath's maps show hot clusters on peat-covered hilltops on the English and Scottish moors.

We sat through the long winter forenights, counting stitches, in the old gray house at Burnfoot, under the Scottish moors.

But not for naught had a thousand generations of Lad's thoroughbred ancestors traced lost sheep through snowstorms on the Scottish moors.

They collaborated in the production of "Provincial Antiquities," and spent many happy hours together tramping over Scottish moors and mountains.

We then went on again, through a region gradually becoming bleaker and wilder, until it became as bare and desolate as any Scottish moors.

It's like taking a banana tree out of Kew Gardens and expecting it to grow in the middle of nowhere on the Scottish moors.