The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-21

neer, in 1920. Around to the west, its base
white an hundred feet high with the spume
of the sea, and its highest peak as white
with drifting mists, rises upwards OF l,OOo
home of Scott's Norma, the Reimkenner,
as dark, forbidding and fearful spot rs
ever human eyes looked upon. To the
east, here and there feathery lines of
smoke on the sea horizon tell of the going
and coming of German ocean tramp
Nearer, in the foreground. like sea fowl
resting upon the water while summing their
uplifted wings, the sails of countless Dutch
and Scottish herring buses. Then Great
Ness, l.ambhoga Head and the Wane of
skewsbnrg are swiftly passed. when
brooch or tower of Mousa is seen, gray old
sentinel of the wraiths of ancient Morse
hosts, browning the desOlate moOrland land
scapc. In half hour more you are passing
through the noble southern entrance to
Bressay sound, western arm of which
forms the capacious harbor of Lerwick.
There is no finer anchorage in the world.
Many time, century or 80 ago. 1000
Dutch herring houses. " it'll hundreds of other
curious Orcadean, Icelandic, Morse and
Baltic craft might have been seen within
the sound at one time. Picturesque head
and south, from the western or mainland
crescent shaped shore, while on the east the
splendid island of Bressay. high and grand
in places, forms circling eastern sea-wall
to guard the sound and harbor from the
tempests of the German ocean:
Bressay sound was the Breitheyiarsund.
or Broad island sound, of the Morse, and
the Buss Havn of the Amsterdam feet. 1t
WAS here that King Hakon came with his
| wonderful fleet of 200 galleys, when on his
disastrous expedition, terminating in the
battle of Largs. Our own redouhtable Paul
1 hor IN loot tho O0rifO1 nj
the Shetlands. But he ran away again
speedily. Hundreds Of Shetland women
climbed the knab, prOmOntory near to
get better view of the Yankee Pirate y
They all wore red pettcoats. The hero
of the Ranger and Richard, believing them
to be the red uniforms of large garrison
of King Georges soldiers, did not stop to
even "kipper" and eat a herring with the
Shetlanders, but made away as fast as his
ships sails could carry him to the Solway
Firth, where he failed in an attempt to de-
spoil Scotland of her good Earl of Selkirk,
say island ia perhaps L., 600 acres. II has .
population of 1000 souls. All the acres and
people ARE the property of very pleasan,
and marriageable lady, Miss Cameron
Mouat, who lives in high state and dudgeol
because of the modernization of Shetland
, and the incoming of tourists at her quain
old mansion house of "Gardie." which lift
! its huge chimneys and CANDLES exactly op
posite the harbor and city of Lerwick.
) Facing old Lerwick from steamer
{ deck, or from Bressay island opposite, 70,
! would almost fancy your vessel had. b,
| some trick of navigation, entered port o
. the Netherlands. If the level lands an,
Q dikas and wierd old wind-mills of Hollan,
o could be thrown in behind Lerwick for
Y background, tho Dutch picture would b
d complete. 1t is only $50 to 800 years ole
h but it looks vastly older and wriggles an
9 twists along its crescent shore in the quaint
% est architectural composites. It is I'll
z northermost town in Great Britain. IN
10 deserves its name, as we'll as that OF i
d lovely bay, from the Morse leir, clay, HI
Is rick, a bay or harbor. It has populatio
1t of 5000 souls, doubled every year durir
9. the herring and tourist season; but or
l. feels that the life and activity that bust
ht in the little place are wholly ne,
IN or at least different from that
" the old northern sea-kings wi
I'd made the port their haven of piraoi
IN and their retreat for orgy. revel and feas
in II you could rehabilitate the people, tai
D. away the emblems of British rule from
ch we'll, where the coast guard are, and
again the harbor and pier with Dutch be
u, ring buses and ample breeched trader
nd every nook, corner and Granny would ha
es its Amsterdam flavor and Rembrandt G
nd fects. Indeed the mark of those stur
sel old fishers and traders upon Lerwick is
he universal. that one comes to resent
Int present occupancy by another races, ev
nd though its people are hospitable "a I
lrG Irish. stolid and energetic as the EnRli
,he and thrifty and canny a. Aberdeen Scots
by men-which u another remarkable CO.
O. posits.