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WICK , a royal, municipal and See also:police See also:burgh, seaport and See also:county See also:town of See also:Caithness, See also:Scotland. Pop. (1901) 7911. It is situated at the See also:head of Wick See also:Bay, on the See also:North See also:Sea, 327 M. N. of See also:Edinburgh, by the North See also:British and Highland See also:railways. It consists of the old, burgh and Louisburgh, its continuation, on the north See also:bank of the See also:river Wick, and of Pulteneytown, the See also:chief seat of See also:commerce and See also:trade, on the See also:south See also:side. Pulteneytown, laid out in 18o5 by the British See also:Fishery Society, is built on a See also:regular See also:plan; and Wick proper consists chiefly of the narrow and irregular High See also:Street, with See also:Bridge Street, more regularly built, which contains the town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall and the county buildings. In Pulteneytown there are an See also:academy, a chamber of commerce, a See also:naval reserve station and a See also:fish See also:exchange. Among other buildings are the See also:free See also:libraries, the Rhind Charitable Institution and the See also:combination See also:hospital. The See also:port consists of two harbours of See also:fair See also:size, but the entrance is dangerous in stormy See also:weather. The chief exports are fish, See also:cattle and agricultural produce, and the imports include See also:coal, See also:wood and provisions. Steamers from See also:Leith and See also:Aberdeen run twice a See also:week and there is also weekly communication with See also:Stromness, See also:Kirkwall and See also:Lerwick. It is to its See also:fisheries that the town owes its prosperity. For many years it was the chief seat of the See also:herring fishing on the See also:east See also:coast, but its insufficient See also:harbour See also:accommodation has hampered its progress, and both See also:Peterhead and See also:Fraserburgh surpass it as fishing ports. See also:Women undertake the cleaning and curing, and the See also:work attracts them from all parts. So See also:expert are they that on the occasion of a heavy catch they are sent as far even as See also:Yarmouth to See also:direct and assist the See also:local hands. See also:Shipbuilding has now been discontinued, but See also:boat-See also:building and See also:net-making are extensively carried on. There are also See also:cooperage, the manufacture of fish-See also:guano and fish products, See also:flour See also:mills, See also:steam saw mills, a ropery and a woollen manufactory, a brewery and a distillery. The town, with See also:Cromarty, See also:Dingwall, See also:Dornoch, Kirkwall and See also:Tain, forms the Wick See also:group of See also:parliamentary burghs. Wick (Vik or " bay ") is mentioned as See also:early as 1140. It was constituted a royal burgh by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James VI. in 1589, its See also:superior being then See also:George See also:Sinclair, 5th See also:earl of Caithness. By a parliamentary See also:bounty in 1768 some impetus was given to the herring-fishery, but its real importance See also:dates from the construction of a harbour in 18o8.
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