Orkney has produced scarce a churchman or a lawyer who has distinguished himself _as such_. The great Robert Reid, founder of Edinburgh University, was perhaps the most celebrated of her pre-reformation bishops, while James Atkine, a native of Kirkwall, was bishop of Moray in the seventeenth century. William Honyman, of the Honymans of Graemsay, sat on the Scottish bench as Lord Armidale in the early part of the nineteenth century, but his marrying Lord Braxfield’s daughter was perhaps his doughtiest feat. The list of Orkney Sheriffs, however, includes the famous names of Charles Neaves, Adam Gifford, and William Edmonstone Aytoun. Aytoun kept house at Berstane, near Kirkwall, and his humourous sketch _The Dreep-daily Burghs_, is supposed to make covert allusion to the climatic and other amenities of the group of parliamentary burghs of which the Orcadian capital at that time formed one. His connection with the Islands also inspired his poem of _Bothwell_; and contact with the surrounding seas moved the lively Neaves to verse of nigh as dolorous strain. 21. The Chief Towns and Villages of Orkney (The figures in brackets after each name give the population in 1911, and those at the end of each section are references to pages in the text.) =Finstown= is a small village in the parish of Firth, the half-way house between Kirkwall and Stromness. The village has a pier, an inn, and a monthly cattle fair. (p. 27.) =Kettletoft=, a small village on a bay of the same name, on the east side of Sanday, is the business centre of the island, and a minor herring-fishing station. [Illustration: Stromness, Orkney, about the year 1825 (From an old print)]