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CONTENTS. 



THE ORKNEY AND SHETLAND ISLANDS. 



ORKNEY ISLANDS. 



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General Description of, . . . . . . . 365 



Lochs of Stenness and Harray, . . . . . 366 



The Fauna and Flora of the Loch of Stenness, .... 367 



Former abundance of Fish in Stenness and Harray, . . . 368 



Prevalence of poaching in both Lochs, ..... 368 



No District Board in Orkney, ...... 368 



Evidence given in 1880, at Kirkwall and elsewhere, with regard to the 



propriety of constituting the Orkney Islands into a Fishery District, 369 

 Description and drawing of a poaching implement called a "Haevie" 



in common use in Orkney, ...... 370 



Lochs of Boardhouse, Hundland, and Swannay, . . . .371 



Island of Hoy. 



Loch of Kirbister and stream flowing from it into Waulkmill Bay, . 373 

 General neglect in the Orkney Islands of the Bye-law (Schedule G) 

 regulating the construction and use of mill-dams, or lades, or water- 

 wheels, ........ 373 



Loch Brochan and stream flowing from it into Bay of Isbister, . . 374 

 Island of Rousay — Description of and list of Lochs in, the Meikle 



Water, the Peerie Water, and Loch Saviskail, . . . 374 



Oysters in Orkney. 



Former abundance of Oysters; present extreme scarcity; proofs of this, 376 

 The Bay of Firth ; the Peerie Sea ; Sound of Deem ess ; Loch of Sten- 

 ness; Loch of Scockness in Rousay; and other localities in the 

 Orkney Islands, well suited for breeding or fattening Oysters, . 377 

 Answers to the Printed Queries relating to Oysters in Orkney from the 

 Fishery Officer, St Margaret's Hope ; General Burroughs of Rousay ; 

 General Burroughs' gamekeeper; Mr Heddle of Hoy; Mr W. I. 

 Fortescue of Swanbister; and Mr W. G. T. Watt of Skaill House, . 378 

 Meeting of Commissioners of Supply at Kirkwall, on 29th September 

 1886, and speech by Mr Watt of Breckness on a motion ' That the 

 ' Commissioners, in their corporate capacity or otherwise, take steps 

 ' for acquiring, developing, and utilising for the benefit of the 



1 county the Oyster Fisheries in Orkney,' .... 380 



THE SHETLAND ISLANDS. 



General Description of, . . . . . . . 382 



Not fewer than 400 fresh-water Lochs in the Islands, . . . 383 



Sea-Trout far more numerous in Shetland than in Orkney, . . 384 

 Size of Sea-Trout, as stated by the minister of Yell and Fetlar in Sir 

 John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland, published nearly 



100 years ago, ....... 384 



