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some ascribed the failure of it to the expense of bringing 

 the commodity to market. However, we still hope that 

 other projects for carrying on this fishery, and those on 

 our coasts in general, will be formed, to which every lover 

 of his country will wish success." 



In his description of Scotland and its islands, Adams 

 remarks : — 



" Most of the birds and fishes common to the Northern 

 countries are to be found here, besides which here is a 

 species of falcon ^ or hawk of a more docile nature than 

 any that are found elsewhere. Plenty of red deer, 

 partridges, growse, heath-cock and plover, are found on 

 the heaths and commons, and the waters abound in 

 duck, teel and widgeon. 



" The sea, besides whales, seals and otters, furnishes 

 the inhabitants with cod, ling, tusk, herrings, crabs, 

 oysters, remarkably large mussels and cockles. The rocks 

 are covered with eagles, hawks, kites, wild geese, solan 

 geese, barnacles, limpets and other species of wildfowl." 



The barnacle and limpet are not included amongst 

 the British wildfowl of to-day ; neither are the rocks in 

 Scotland covered with eagles and such-like wildfowl — 

 at least, they were not when last we journeyed North. 



"The lakes of Scotland are almost innumerable, the in- 

 habitants sometimes giving the name of loch or lake to an 

 arm of the sea ; which is the case of Loch Fyn, famous for 



* Probably the peregrine falcon. 



