ORKNEY 
Bullock, the proprietor of the London Mufeum, has lately 
enriched his valuable collection by many eps and rare 
ofprey ; and 
brought away feveral of the young birds, as well as thofe 
on. reat northern diver frequents 
ays of this ifle; and thofe rare Britifh birds, the red- 
throated ree and ca arétic gull, breed on the edges of the 
frefh-water lakes. In North Ronaldfay the ea, 
above mentioned eae and added to the Britifh Fauna, 
ed ae og ftrix nyétea, or great {nowy owl of Hudfon’s 
n the marfhes of Sanda he found the neft of the 
bese little red phalarope. The great black-backed gull 
breeds in the Soulifkerry, a low flat_ifle firuated 10 leagues 
rom Hoy. Here were feen fuch ‘myriads of birds, that 
hey darkened the = and it was difficult to walk, with- 
out ee their 
ee : 
e only fpecimen . the great 
auk Mr. Bullock ever faw on ie Britifh thor Grous 
are common in all the mountainous ifles but par ridges are 
unknown. The ftormy petrel, or Mother Carey’s chick, 
breeds in ‘the rabbit-holes on feveral of the ifles. The pere- 
grine is difcovered on head-lands and inacceffible precipices : 
never more than one pair and their offspring inhabit the 
a s foon as nes have acquired 
fufficient ica, they ne are driven away by their pa 
rents to new places of habitation ae ile peace 
When falconry was in See. this noble kin haw 
frequently carried hence for the amufement of ‘the Seottifh 
In fuch eftimation, indeed, was it held, that 
parliac ali were baat to his majetty, oe a 
faleoner’ 8 fanaa ; af accordingly, even at this day, 
from every houfe here is oa annually to the ele ra 
the eagles hae papal in Orkney, a fpecies 
eal] led he ring-tail eagle is moft remarkable. It is diftin- 
guifhed from the other kinds, ie a cae of ae encom- 
pafling the root of the tail, and A the feathers covering its 
legs to the very feet. 
that he’ has been known to 
e€ n ancient ne. ane a ae was 
affigning a coalieessie reward to any perfon who 
dettroyed a neft, or one of the birds. - In the sane aie . 
the Royal Academy of London, i was a very fine 
interefting picture, ton the pencil of G. Dawe, A.R. A., 
reprefenting a mother ae an infant child rae - neft 
of one of thefe eagles. 
-. Thofe on the fummit are provided 
ith two ropes, which are thrown down to their comrades in 
the beat, who faften them to the upper corners of a large 
ISLANDS. 
net. The net is then hoifted up, fo as to cover the rock on 
oS the birds are fitting ; and as foon as this has been ef. 
ed, a noife is made with a rattle. by the boatmen below, 
The fowls, terrified at the found, fly into the bofom of the 
net, in Riera et are inftantly inclofed, and lowered down 
into t 
G 
the former fifh, many thoufands are fhipped fcr ie ene 
market every week. The coal, cod-fifh, and haddock, are 
plentiful, and a hkewife are herrings ; bie not withflanding 
the great advantage which might accrue from thefe fithcries, 
very little attention is paid to this fpecies of indultry. 
Skates are found here from one to five feet in diameter. 
he grampus i great numbers in moft of thefe 
coafts, and particularly in {trong and impetuous currents 
The fiz 7 thefe animals is ts fifteen to twenty-five feet 
they ar i Its ap- 
in length, a n 
petite is fo eon and its ce fo fi 
attack the largeft fifhes. The {permaceti whale, the bo 
nofe, and the round-lipped whale, are very frequently thrown 
on fhore in thefe iflands; a circumftance fuppofed to be 
occafioned by the attacks ‘of ne grampus. or- 
poifes to ae amount of a hundred and upwards are oftea 
feen togethe 
atural Curiofit ies. —~Amon fities of Orkney, the 
ftupendous arches, and im ie ae caverns formed by the ocean, 
are the moft prominent, and cannot fail to attra the notice 
and excite the furprife of all one are ftrangers to fuch fce 
‘The Old-man-of-Hoy is probably as remarkable a eonumen 
of its kind as any in the univerfe. It rifes boldly from the fea 
to the height of 1500 feet, and exhibits a perpendicular fec- 
tion of the fand-itone itrata, built a each other with all 
the regularity of architeGure. In fome ere it refembles 
a rude pyramid, eee ane fe has eee narrowed by the w 
in others, it ears 
The natives regard it 
as an enchanted carbuncle; and it is curious, that, though 
many perfons have clambered up the rock to afcertain the 
occation of this appearance, they have hitherto failed in their 
et. 
On the fhores nai ate found a iia number and variety 
of curious marine fhells, and m itrange fifhes, driven 
hither by the een of the e ocean. But the greateft cu- 
riofity thrown by the fea on thefe iflands are the phafeoli, 
commonly known by the name of the Molucca or Orkuey 
beans. ‘They are of feveral fpecies, none of which are the 
produce of a northern climate, but are probably of American 
or hla Indian bay oe ; many of them being natives of Ja- 
maic They a chiefly on the weltern coats and 
are on adel fo sia, that they miht be gathered in large 
jaa dade 2 vies value; but the only ufe they are adopted 
r is the of ieee See Orkney Leans. 
"Exotic eae the inhabitants of diftant and warm climates, 
occafionally vifit thefe iflands; whither they have been 
doubtlefs forced by tempeftuous weather. A La ander, 
the fame caufe, is fometimes feen here, in his flender 
from t 
canoe, covered with fkins. Fuh, ge as w g 
frequently thrown afhore to a confiderable diftance within 
= land; and 7 Can — Head, fuch is the h 
eting tides, that, orm 
often heaved up from the bowels of the deep, and caft over 
the rocks upon the fhor 
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