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south-east side of it, lies the small but 
fertile Island of Noss, the south headland 
of which is not less than four hundred 
and eighty feet high. Opposite to this, 
and distant ninety-six feet from the 
Island, stands another rock or holm, of 
the same height. The holm is quite 
level at the top, and produces excellent 
pasture for sheep. 
To transport {hem there might well 
have been thought impossible. Human 
ingenuity, however, requires only the 
exhibition of difficulties in order to over¬ 
come them. An islander climbed up the 
rock, and having fastened some ropes to 
stakes he drove into the soil on the top, 
threw them across the intervening chasm 
to the headland, where they were in like 
manner fastened. A cradle or basket is 
drawn along these ropes, and sheep are 
thus transported to, and from the holm. 
And the eggs or young of the seafowl, 
which there breed in vast numbers, fall 
