PORTLICH, a village, in the parish of Kilmuir-Easter,
county of Ross-and-Cromarty, 3 miles (N. E.)
from Invergordon; containing 90 inhabitants. This
village, which is situated on the northern coast of the
Firth of Cromarty, originally consisted only of a few
huts occupied by persons engaged in the fishery. The
fish chiefly taken were cod, haddock, flounders, and
occasionaUy a few herrings; but for some years the inhabitants,
with the exception of sending a few boats to
the herring-fishery, have abandoned fishing, and employed
themselves in various handicraft trades.