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FLOTTA [island] Flotta
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Flotay
Andrew Gold Esq Grainbank
John Ross Farmer Bow
James Barnet, Pan
Stat a/c of Scotland
Peaces Orkney Almanac
Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac
Handbook to the Orkneys
Parrys Orkney Islands A.D. 1805
Philips County Atlas
Imp. Gazetteer
Ad. Chart
Johnstons Map of Orkney
North Sea Pilot Robertson's Gaelic Top of Scotland
Parrys Orkney Islands A.D. 1805
119 One of the inhabited group of the southern isles of Orkney, bounded on the south by the Pentland Firth on the west by Longhope, on the north by Scapa Flow, and on the east by Hoxa Sound. The island is about two miles wide and varying from 1/4 to 3 miles in length. About one half of the island is under cultivation and the remainder is under moss & heather. the whole of the island is low and the soil comparatively good. It is ecclesiastically united with the parish of Walls, but has a neat & comfortable Mission church of its own with a resident Ordained minister. There is also a good public School and Post Office and an excellent harbour called Pan Hope deriving itss name (tradition says) from a salt pan at one time used here for manufacturing salt out of sea water.
There are no antiquities of any kind known on the island. The Earl of Zetland is sole proprietor.

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