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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| WICK | [Continued from page 1] A large Academy &c &c. The port of WicK is the principal herring fishery station on the north-east coast of Scotland and employs an immense fleet of boats, and several thousand hands during the fishing Season, which commences about the last weeK in July and ends about the first or second weeK in September. The Parliamentary Burgh includes all the Suburbs and also embraces a considerable porton of the surrounding country, as well as a portion of the fishing village of Broadhaven. WicK unites with KirKwall, Dornoch, Cromarty , Tain, and Dingwall in sending a member to parliament, and is the returning burgh, The area of the Par Boy [Parliamentary Boundary] is 708 acres. the area of the Royalty Boy [Boundary] is 42 acres |
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