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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. IV. From Aherdeen to Caithness. ? Voyage in the Prince Consort. ? Motley Passengers.?Peterhead.?A scramhling Supper.?Scaldings.? Lights a-head and around.?Herring-fishing Boats.?Fraserhurgh.? The Moray Firth. ? A hot Night. ? The Caithness Coast. ? The Maiden Paps.?Noss Head.?Wick Herring Fleet.?Land at Wick.? Great hustle.?Amazing quantity of Herrings.?Stalwart Fishers.? Stout Girls.?No Porters.?How Luggage is carried.?Our maimed Passenger.?Proceed to the Caledonian Hotel.?Best, It is a long and expensive land journey from Aberdeen to Caithness, for the iron horse's most northern stable at present is Inverness, beyond which town he does not travel. Thus, if you are bound to John o'Groat's land on a summer tour, and can put up with a little roughing, you will do well to take the steamer from Aberdeen to Wick. This costs (first saloon) 1Ss., and the voyage in propitious weather is made in about ten hours; whereas, to Wick vid Inverness by rail and mail-coach occupies two days and a night, and costs nearly 41. But I advise the tourist not to undertake the voyage if there be a dense fog, or a strong east wind blowing, for your steamer may come to grief, like the Duke of Richmoud which was wrecked on the coast near Aberdeen last autumn. I had arranged with the Peeblesshire Laird to join him on board the Prince Consort, a fine new steamship, at Aberdeen, provided the weather was auspicious, and as Boreas showed no signs of blustering at 5 o'clock in the afternoon I drove to the quay, and shortly after we steamed out of the harbour. The vessel was gorged with passengers and merchandise. The former consisted of many varieties. Farmers returning home from a great cattle show in Edinburgh. Orcadians and Shetlanders, a few even from the Faroe islands, who had been ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217945547
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 106
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217945546
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 204 gr


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