Peace's Orkney almanac and county directory . between the Black Craigand Hoy Head. Eddying and swirling like a great river in flood, theysweep onwards with resistless strength. With sails set, for the breezeis favourable, a fishing yawl has gained the centre of the rushing stream,and she tears along with giddying speed, swifter than if propelled by thepower of steam. An hour before flood-tide, which sets from the north-west, a strong current flows from the north, keeping the Stromness sideof the sound, while at half-ebb another stream, setting from the southalong the opposite side of the sound
Peace's Orkney almanac and county directory . between the Black Craigand Hoy Head. Eddying and swirling like a great river in flood, theysweep onwards with resistless strength. With sails set, for the breezeis favourable, a fishing yawl has gained the centre of the rushing stream,and she tears along with giddying speed, swifter than if propelled by thepower of steam. An hour before flood-tide, which sets from the north-west, a strong current flows from the north, keeping the Stromness sideof the sound, while at half-ebb another stream, setting from the southalong the opposite side of the sound, continues till high water. Borneon the run of these currents, when wind and tide set from the samequarter, fisher-boats dash through the sound as if racing for a regatta-cup. Stromness fStrom-nessJ literally signifies the ness in the current,and thus we find that the Norse name of the promontory in which thehills terminate has been transferred to the town.—From Summers MidWinters in the Orkneys, by Daniel Gorrie. 1874 Almanac 74 Peaces Orkney and Shetland 1874 JhE ^/fjECK OF THE JaE^JSINQ yVT fjilY{ |?LE. W FEW WEEKS before I visited Fair Isle, the Lessing, a new(XV ship on her first passage, was wrecked at Skeldie Cliff. She hadonly left Bremen a week before she struck, and was bound forNew York, with a very miscellaneous cargo, and a hopeful band ofemigrants from many different European nationalities, one hundredand fifty of whom were women and children. Thick weather preventedthe officers from taking an observation ; and supposing that they werefifty miles past Fair Isle, every sail was set to catch the breeze, andtheir bark rode bravely right before the wind, at the rate of sevenknots an hour, when, at day-dawn, she struck with a terrible crash. Infront was a dark, troubled pool, death-like in its solemn depths, walledround by perpendicular rocks, whose tops were lost to view in the densemist; behind, an angry ocean threatened to tear the bark asunder, asone
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