CHAPTER LXVIII. 



ROCK-FOWLING IN THE SHETLAND ISLES. 



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" The billows hurst in ceaseless flow 

 Deep on the precipice below ; 

 And steepy rock and frantic tide 

 Approach of human step defied." 



SiK Walter Scott. 



A MOST remarkable and equally dang-erous method of fowling is 

 practised in one of tlie Shetland islands, at the Holme of Noss, a pre- 

 cipitous rock which stands severed from the Isle of N oss only sixty- 

 five feet distant, as if by some long-forg'otten convulsion, or other 



