Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14

snuff togither in glorvl'' He thought
the "great day. had come and that the
angel was aboard the steamer, trumpet
Ing the signal for universal dissolution
Sailing packets were finally super
coded, and large steamers regularly ply
between Scottish ports aud those of the
Northern isles, furnishing the remotest
and dreariest fishing hamlets with three
mails week. The tremendous increase
i'll the Importance Of the herring fishing
industry of the Orkneys and Scotland is
not alone responsible for the establishing
of convenient means of intercommunca-
ton with England, Southern Scotland
and the near mainland. European sum-
mer tourists have within a few years
come here in great numbers. On the
continent, and especially in London,
now that the locks and gleus OF Northern
Scotland have been pretty we'll explored,
there is an increasing enthusiasm in PEN
etrating northermost regions. Only this
season periodic excursion parties to Ice
land were organized with great success.
The spirit of adventure. easily and
pleasantly gratified, the grand aud mag
nificent rock scenery, especially of the
western seawalls of both island groups,
the fascination of the
FIERCE TIDEwAYS AND wHIRLPOoLS
with which the coasts abound, locally
called "roosts, the grewsomeness and
grandeur of the outlying islets and
holms, the occasional roarings of the
Atlantic which may often be heard for a
distance OF twenty miles as the bowling
storms beat upon mural precipces OF the
Western shores, and, above all, proba-
bly, the grandest free fishing in the
world, IN Shetland, where the lochs and
tarns which communicate with the sea,
are alive with brown trout. and the woes
end CLOS indenting the coasts swarm with
sea trout Innumerable. have all con-
tributed In rendering these remote is
lands easy of access. From Edinburgh
or Glasgow they may now be reached by
rail to Thurso, and steamer TO the DIRK.
neys, in eighteen hours time Or, one
may take the train to Aberdeen aud
thence by steamer skirt the eastern Scot
fish coast, touching at Wick, in CATH
ness, and Knkwall, in the Orknevs,
and reach Lerwick, the capital OF Shet-
land. in twenty four hours time from
Aberdeen.
The latter Is a coasting trip full of in
cident and interest as the coast of Scot
land Is nearly always in sight. Leaving
harbor mouth of the river
Dee. half hours sail brings you abreast
of the great Slams Castle, the seat Of
the Earl of Enrol, where DR.. johnson
and Boswell were entertained IN 1878,
one OF the grandest situations on the en-
tire eastern coast. Then for a long d is.
lance the coast is a reach OF soft, honey.
combed scaur, assuming at frequent in
tervals the appearance Of Gothic ruins
with open arches. This leads to the ia
nous Buffers (rosrers) of Buchan, tre-
mendous caverns in the precipitous sea
wall, where in high gales the waters rush
in with terrific violence, while their roar
ing, mingled with the shrieking OF sea |
fowls which build along the edge of Dun |
Buy in myriads, give the spot as dolorous |
and dreadful sounds es those greeting |
the doomed Vathek in the awful realms !
Of Eblis. Beyond the 'Bullers' to the |
north, the noted red granite quarries of |
Peterhead come in sight, aud but four |
miles further is the city Of Peterhead. |
olden seat Of the Greenland trade. now |
given over to ship building and fishing, |
the easternmost town in Scotland, DOM i
mated, with Its fat surrounding coup- |
try, by the bleak hill of Marmoud, rear. |
ing its lone and coffin shaped head in |
the northwest horizon.
Fraserburgh, one Of the great east
coast fishing ports, is next passed, when