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a long extract will be given under Bass Rock. He merely 

 says " Elissa, a craig in the sey foranent Galloway," where 

 is to be found " ane foul," commonly called '' ane Solande 

 Guse." Further on, Lesly says of Ailsa that it " abundes in 

 Solend Geis, and monie utheris Sey foulis," but when 

 alluding to Ailsa, in his account of the Bass Rock, he says 

 they are not so abundant as at the Bass, which is contrary 

 to present experience. 



4. In John Monipennie's " Abridgement or Summarie 

 of the Scots Chronicles " (1597, but printed in 1603), there is 

 the following scanty mention of Ailsa Craig, probably copied 

 from the " godly and diligent " Donald Monro, as he terms 

 him, though his spelling of Solan is different : " There are 

 many conies and sea-fowles in it, specially of that kind 

 which wee call Solayne Geese." 



5. We next come to Sir William Brereton's diary 

 of his travels — to that portion which he kept in Scotland 

 in July, 1635.* 



* " Travels in Holland, the United Provinces, England, Scotland, 

 and Ireland, MDCXXXIV-V.," by Sir William Brereton, Bart. 

 Printed fertile Chetham Society, 1844 (p. 117). Brereton's "Travels" 

 which have been republished in "Early Travellers in Scotland." 1891, by 

 Mr. Hume Brown, also form the subject of an article by Mr. J. E. Harting 

 (" Field," August 13th, 1904), and a still more valuable one by Mr. T. 

 Southwell (" Norwich Naturalists' Tr.," VII., [). BOO). Brereton sub- 

 sequently distinguished himself as a Parliamentary general, defeating 

 Aston in 1643, and Rupert in 1644: his account of the Bass will be 

 given in the next chapter. 



