I provided with a long rod, furniihed at the end with a ihort hair
| e with a running noofe. This he flings round the neck o f the
trd, hawls it up and repeats it till he takes ten or twelve dozen
In an evening *. „ , , , , r
■ Land on the beach ; and find the ruins o f a chapel, and the vei-
tiges of places inhabited by fiihermen who refort here during the
Lion for the capture of cod, which abound here from January
to April, on the great bank, which begins a little louth o f Arran,
M e s this rock, and extends three leagues beyond. The filh
E r e taken with long lines, very little different from thofe defcribed
f,jn the third vol. of the Br. Zoology, p. 19.? ; a repetition is unnecef-
|Ly | the fiih are dried and then falted | but there are feldom fuf-
|#cient caught for foreign exportation.
■ With much difficulty afcend to the caftle, a fquare tower of
Biree ftories, each vaulted, placed pretty high on this only acceffible
part of the rock. The path is narrow, over a vail Hope,
■ fo ambiguous that it wants but little o f a true precipice: the
walk is horrible, for the depth is alarming. It would have been
phought that nothing but an eagle would have fixed his habitation
here 5 and probably it was fome chieftain not lefs an animal
i of rapine. The only mark of civilization I faw in the caftle was
| an oven; a conveniency which many parts o f North Britain
lire yet ftrangers to.
I In 1597 one Barclay o f Ladyland undertook the romantic defign
| i poffeffing himfelf of this rock; and of fortifying it for the
■ervice of the Spaniards. He arrived there with a few affiftants,
H * I cannot learn where thefe feathers are ufed.
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