"In other bays no trawling has ever been carried on; and the present state of the fisheries in such places will have to be carefully inquired into."[19]
FOOTNOTES:
[18] Report of Inspectors of Irish Fisheries for 1887, p. 10.
[19] Report of Inspectors of Fisheries, 1887, p. 8.
CHAPTER VI
"The darksome pines on yonder rocks reclined
Wave high and murmur to the hollow wind."
Pope.
Having thus far spoken of the wealth that might be realized by the islanders from the waters that surround their islands, let us turn to speak of the wealth that might be realized by the islanders from the islands themselves—wealth produceable neither by patches of potatoes, nor by tillage, nor by minerals, nor by pasturage. On the islands are vast terraces of naked rocks, and there are vast terraces of rocks not naked on which grew those forests of oak, of yew, and of fir of which we have already spoken, when treating of Druidism.
RE-AFFORESTING ARAN.