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not seen at any other time or in any other part of the Lochs.
Yet at that season the Countrey people with Plaids sewed
together like a net, have taken such store of them, that they
carried them home and salted them up in Vessels for the food
of their families.’ (P. 165.)
6. Dumfries, Lochmaben loch. ‘ Where the Fishes called
Venaces & Gevenaces are talked of nowhere else in our
Countrey. They are pleasant white Fishes.’ (P. 187.)
7. Dumfries. ‘ Contiguous unto this Loch [Lochmaben]
are seven large Lochs, all which have the same Fishes
[Venaces]. . . . The Fishes resemble Whitings in colour, tast
& figure, only being a little more dry.’ (P. 187.)
8. Buchan. Fovery. ‘Eagles build in the Craigs of
Pennan.’ (P. 227.)
9. Buchan. Pitsligo. ‘ Some few years ago there was seen
two Mermaids by Mr. Alexr. Robertson Pitsligo’s Chaplain
an English man and another person.’ (P. 228.)
10. Ila. Banks of Gyinord. ‘ Upon the quhilk bankes upon
the sea lyes Infinit Selcheis Whilks are slayne with doges
learnit to the same effect.’ (P. 271.)
11. Renfrew. 4 The Inhabitants hereof at Greenock,
Gurock, Innerkep, and Newark, making the greatest number
of fishers. The Fishing of Herrings on all accounts hath
for many years been the most noted of any in Scotland or
about it. the Fish that enter this Firth of Clide, being
larger, fairer, firmer, of a better tast, and taking better with
the salt than any other, and more valued both fresh and
salted, at home and abroad then any other the Kingdom
affords, the number likewise being incredibly great. . . . There
have been reckoned 2500 Last which comes to 3750 Tun of
Herrings made and salted and exported in a year, beside vast
quantities which are consumed within the Countrey.’ ‘Five
or six hundred Boats have been seen together in one place at
the Take. . . . The Herrings will sometime continue till
Decr and January from June or July.’ (Pp. 211 and 212.)