Description of the islands of Orkney and Zetland ... / Reprinted from the edition of 1711, published under the superintendence of Sir Robert Sibbald.
- Monteith, Robert, Laird of Eglisha and Gairsa, active 1633.
- Date:
- 1845
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Description of the islands of Orkney and Zetland ... / Reprinted from the edition of 1711, published under the superintendence of Sir Robert Sibbald. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![times eaft in alive upon their fhore, and fometimes Tritons and Mermaids are feen about thefe Ifles. But their greateft profit is from the Herring Fifliing, alongft there Coaft, efpeciallv in the Moneths of July and Auguji: the Hollanders yearly with great Fleets of Bufhes repare their in June,, they begin upon the Coaft of the Ifland of Unjl, and go along the Eaft tide of Shetland to Orknay, and from thence over Murray Firth, towards Yarmouth, upon the Coaft of England, continuing to Fifth, from the Summer Solftice to the firft of December, and at the fame time Employ feveral Hundreds of Doggers, for taking of White Fifth: for befides vaftt quantities of Herring taken in Shetland, many Ships Loading of Cod and Ling are taken there, and befide them they take many Tufk, (a rare wholfome and delicious Fifth) from the end of May, at the Eaft of the Ifle of J3reJ]'ay and Whalfey, and of Dunrojenefs: the Natives themfelves make ufe, for their fifliing, of fmall Boats, which they call Yalls, about the bignefs of Gravejend Oarsy and they take their Ling and their Cod with Hooks and Lines, they take alfo Seeths (of the Livers of which they make Oyl) and other fmall fifli with Angles, fitting on the Rocks, and in their fmall Boats with Hooks and Lines in the Sounds, and between the Ifles, which fmall fifli are confiderable: what they eat not prefently, the reft of them they preferve in their Skeos. With their fmall fifliing Boats or Yalls Rowing them with two Men, and fometimes four according to the Largenefs of the Boat, they go to the Main, about two or three Leagues more or Lefs, where the Banks are, and there they lay their Hooks and Lines for Ling and Cod, and ufually every Morning (that they go to Sea) they take about fiftie or fixtie Ling and Cod : if they had better Boats and tackling, they might take a great many more fifli of all forts: and if Magazins and Work](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29320975_0095.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
