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of them. This market would appear to have gone by the 

 name of " The Poultry," and an advertisement of this very 

 date is quoted from the " Edinburgh Advertiser " in 

 Pennant's " Tour in Scotland " (I., p. 61), which runs as 



follows : — 



Solan Goose. 



There is to be sold, by John Watson, Jun., at his 

 Stand at the Poultry, Edinburgh, all lawful days in the 

 week, wind and weather serving, good and fresh Solan 

 Geese. . . . Aug. 5, 1768. 



Letting value since 1820. — In 1820 E. G. Fleischer says 

 the Bass was let to a Mr. Whitecross for £35 (" Isis," 

 1821, XII., L. A. 330-4) ; in 1825 Selby says the rent 

 was £60 (" British Ornithology," 11., p. 456) ; in 1841 it 

 was only £30 (" Statistical Account of Haddingtonshire "). 

 In 1860 the tenant's name was Adams — what rent he paid 

 I have no means of knowing, but Mr. Harvie-Brown says 

 that he used to charge visitors 2s. 6d. for each adult Gannet 

 shot within a certain distance of the Bass. At that time 

 according to Mr. J. le Bas, large numbers were still being 

 sent up to Edinburgh, and retailed at one shilling and eight 

 pence apiece.* Mr. H. S. Gladstone has obliged me with 

 one of Adams's advertisements of his Gannets' eggs.f 



* " Land and Water," February 27th, 1869. 



■\ Pasted into a book which had belonged to Sir WiUiam Jardine, and is 

 now the property of Mr. Harvie-Brown. 



