510 OF THE EAST COAST FROM THE 



Nine miles from Stonehave Bervy,or Invcr- 



1) and a imall lea-port; but 

 manufactures have y 



A mile fouth < 



hath a harlxnir and pier, wh< 



vcfiels may load and unload. miles further 



tilhing \ , and 



at the mouth of the river South Klk, 13 iv 

 Invci and thriving 



town of Montrofe, a royal borough of great antiqui- 



: iarter granted by David I. 



who be<ran his rei^n in 1 1 .14. Montrofe lies in the 

 county of Ar .d is the fecond town in manu- 



fadtures, (hipping, and general commerce. Its tifh- 

 eries were formerly very con cm- 



ploy to above 500 boats and . who 



alternately engaged in the herring, cod, and 

 ling fifheries, which they cured and exported to the 

 Baltic, Hamburgh, Holland, France, and England, 

 under the general name of Habberdyn (Aben; 

 fifh. 



Beyond the Long Fortys, which ftretch in a paral- 

 lel line with the who rn coall, lies a confider- 

 able bank with 6 pits in it of uncommon depth, 



/ from 40 to 100 fathoms, and 1 warming 

 cod, ling, turbot, &c. but, flrange as it may fecm, 

 the inhabitants of Montrofe have abandoned the fifh- 

 ing bufmefs, which is thereby transferred to the 

 Dutch and Hamburghers. 



The two rivers, South Ffk and North Efk, fur- 

 nifh the town with falmon, which they export to 

 London and foreign parts, to the value of 6 or 

 7000!. annually. A finall village called Ufan, fup- 

 plies them amply with lobfters, of which, from 

 50,000 to 100,000, are fent annually to London. 

 Very beautiful agates are gathered beneath the cliffs, 

 and fent to the lapidaries in London. 



Montrofe lies in the neighbourhood of a fertile, 

 well-improved country, and exports, in good feafons 



grain, 



