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is evident, because I find, in the General Index to the Catalogue 
of Publications, all three names given to North Barray, thus: 
** Sula Sgeir,” Sulesker, and North Barra (i. e. near North Ronay), 
but there is no index reference whatever to ‘‘ Suleskerry ”’ (the 
misnomer), though, as I have shown above, on the Index Chart 
e “ Sule-Skerry’”’ and ‘‘ Stack-Skerry”’! More I cannot say, 
but, with all my previous experiences, I shall still wonder if 1 
have said enough. I daresay, at least, my readers may think 
so, but I hope they will not blame me !* 
Although the succeeding notes bear no direct reference to 
the subject of the Fulmar’s distribution and dispersal, yet I 
cannot conclude this introductory part without once more calling 
attention to a still more important neglect, which I have also 
spoken of fully before, and that is as regards that most dangerous 
obstacle to safe navigation—the Helen’s Reef—which is a sub- 
merged ridge forming a long shoulder of the great submerged 
mountain, of which Rockall forms the only visible top above water, 
which top is 72 ft. in height and 300 ft. in girth, as was pointed 
out by Captain Basil Hall in his ‘ Fragments of Travel ’—an old 
statement that ‘‘ the best account written regarding Rockall” was 
merely a fanciful picture by a person who confessed to me in a 
letter that he had never been at Rockall (sic). I have else- 
where quoted that communication fully, and need not repeat it 
* Perhaps the following adaptation of a well-known piece of “‘ poethry ” 
may help to fix the fact in the memory :— 
*«« And now, me bhoy, hould up yer head, 
And look like a gentleman, Sor; 
And tell me where Suleskerry is; 
You can tell me if you'll try, Sor’: 
*O there nivver wasn’t no such place, 
And it’s all a bluidy loi, Sor.’ 
“* Right ye are, me bhoy : 
Now tell me where Seal’s Sker ry is ? 
Spake up like a gentleman, Sor!’ 
‘O Skerries are simply lumps o’ rock 
Which were christened by Julius Cesar, 
They were carted acrass from Norroway 
When there wasn’t then no seas, Sor.’ 
«Right agin, mebhoy, . 
Where did ye fetch yer knowlidge 2 Ze 
‘O just in the same place as yerself— 
In my Mother’s milk—and Porridge.’ 
‘ Perhaps, but of this I can’t be sure, 
In some Silly Skerry’s College.’”’ 
