392 



TELFORD'S SCOTCH HARBOURS. 



FART VITI. 



Improvements of a similar kind were carried out by 

 the Fishery Board at various other parts of the coast, 

 and many snug arid convenient harbours were provided 

 at the principal fishing stations in the Highlands and 

 Western Islands. Where the local proprietors were 

 themselves found actively at work expending money in 

 carrying out piers and harbours, the Board assisted them 

 with grants to enable them to complete the works in the 

 most substantial manner and after the most approved 

 plans. Thus, along that part of the bold northern coast 

 of the mainland of Scotland which projects into the 

 German Ocean, many old harbours were improved or 

 new ones constructed as at Peterhead, Frazerburgh, 

 Banff, Cullen, Burgh Head, and Nairn. At Fortrose, in the 

 Murray Frith ; at Dingwall, in the Cromarty Frith ; at 

 Portmaholmac, within Tarbet Ness, the remarkable head- 

 land of the Frith of Dornoch ; at Kirkwall, the principal 

 town and place of resort in the Orkney Islands, so well 

 known from Sir Walter Scott's description of it in the 

 4 Pirate ;' at Tobermory, in the island of Mull ; and at 

 other points of the coast, piers were erected and other 



storm such blocks- would be driven 

 about almost like pebbles. The re- 

 bound from flat surfaces is also very 

 heavy, and produces violent commo- 



tion; whereas these broken, upright, 

 columnar-looking piers seem to ab- 

 sorb the fury of the sea, and render its 

 wildest waves comparatively innocuous. 



FOLKESTONE HARBOUR. [By Percival Skelton ] 



