CHAPTER LXVIII. 



ROCK-FOWLING IN THE SHETLAND ISLES. 



The billows burst in ceaseless flow 

 Deep on the precipice below ; 

 And steepy rock and frantic tide 

 Approach of human step defied." 



SIR WALTER SCOTT. 



A MOST remarkable and equally dangerous method of fowling- is 

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

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

 five feet distant, as if by some long-forgotten convulsion, or other 



