Fishery. and thus a considerable market is afforded to the fisher- British men of the isles and coasts of the ocean for the produce of their industry. THE following Table will explain the state of the po-Population. pulation of the different parishes of Inverness-shire. Brought over 32783 36993 17167 20883 17353 24531922439030 Kilmanivaig 2795 2400 1177 1364 975 66 1500 2541 Kilmorack, Kilmuir....1572 2065 1164 1391 1964 2495 1171 1417 459 36 2060 2555 611 143 1834 2588 ... } 1693 1813 Portree. Sleat. Egg)... ..... Snizort 1627 1808 1643 1518 1250 1788 858 1045 940 101 862 1903 943 1579 vision. Ditto, second Uist, North... 1909 3218 1450 1560 2699 102 Urquhart 1943 2355 869 1075 927 209 3010 85 932 1944 Total.....6465673979338014049134068 3864'3636174292| ARGYLESHIRE. I Bituation. THE county of Argyle forms the south-western part of the Highlands of Scotland, and has a great number of islands united to it. The continental part of Argyleshire (exclusive of the islands belonging to that county), is situated between 55° 21′ and 57° north latitude, and between 1° 22′ and 3° 25' of longitude west of Edinburgh. It is bounded on the north by Inverness-shire, on the east by that county and Perthshire and Dunbarton, on the south and west by different bays and straits of the Atlantic Ocean, in which are scattered the various isles politically connected with it. Extent. The continental part of this county can scarcely be considered in any other light than as consisting of a great number of peninsulated tracts. From the west and the south the ocean forms long and narrow bays, which run far into the country, dividing it into a great number of narrow districts. Of twenty-seven parishes only one is inland; but it is the peculiar characteristic of Argyleshire, as well as of the rest of the West Highlands, that although entirely maritime, it is nevertheless a mountainous country. It has about 600 miles of sea-coast, and that independent of its numerous islands. The greatest length of its continental part, from the Mull of Kintyre to the Point of Ardnamurchan (1o 30', at the rate of sixty-nine statute miles and a half to the degree of latitude), |