The Hog.] OF ORKNEY. 11 



When killed from the mountains they make but ordinary 

 meat, and yet they are seldom otherwise fed ; when proper- 

 ly managed they make very good pork and ham, and are 

 sold in quantities to the shipping, either in this manner, or 

 quite fresh from the knife. 



An Orkney swine seldom weighs above sixty or seventy 

 pounds, and this sold to the stranger at twopence per pound ; 

 however, the country people seldom receive from the butcher 

 above four or five shillings Sterling a head ; oftener under 

 than above. 



Of the hair they make (notwithstanding its shortness) 

 those ropes with which they let one another over the steepest 

 and highest rocks, in quest of wild-fowl and their eggs ; and 

 they tell us (with what truth I know not) they answer much 

 better, and are less ready to gall on the rugged rocks, than the 

 best hempen ones. However this may be, many of them are 

 lost in these dreadful attempts, few of their professed climb- 

 ers living out their days. 



GENUS F.— THE CAT. 



Felis Domestica seu Catus, Rati Syn. 170. Felis Catus, Lin. Sys.G9>. Brit. 



ZoolA5. Pen. Syn. 183. 



Remarkable for nothing here, more than elsewhere, ex- 

 cept the many apocryphal stories told of its not being able 



