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KETTLETOFT BAY Kettletoft Bay Rev. John Dangerfield Minister of Lady Parish
W. Miller Postmaster Castlehill
John M. Slater Skelbister
081 A large bay penetrating inland from Sanday Firth, in a northerly direction. It is bounded on the east by "Els Ness" and on the west by Bea Ness. Its length is about three quarters of a mile and its width about half a mile. There is about half a mile of it completely dry at low water. It is a safe anchorage for vessels with easterly or westerly Gales.
OUSE POINT Ouse Point Rev. John Dangerfield Minister of Lady Parish
W. Miller Postmaster Castlehill
John M. Slater Skelbister
081 A narrow peninsula penetrating in an easterly direction to the head of the Ouse. It is nearly joined by another promontory penetrating north from Elsness farm. The Ouse cuts the connection.
THE OUSE The Ouse
The Ouse
The Ouse
Rev. John Dangerfield Minister of Lady Parish
W. Miller Postmaster Castlehill
John M. Slater Skelbister
081 A small low water channel. It first issues out of a small fresh water loch forty yards east of "Little Overthewater" and flows south for about eighty yards, it then flows south east entering the "Little Sea" one eighth of a mile west of Bridgend. It continues this course for two hundred yards' further, when it enters a deep salt water pool. It then changes & flows south. From the above mentioned pool southward it is known as the "Ouse".

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