TORRY, a village, in the parish of Nigg, county of
Kincardine, 1 mile (S. by E.) from Aberdeen; containing
295 inhabitants. This place is situated on the
south shore of the river Dee and harbour of Aberdeen.
It is inhabited by persons employed in the fisheries, and
by a few others engaged in various handicraft trades.
The fish taken here are, salmon, with which the river
abounds, and cod, haddocks, ling, turbot, and different
kinds of shell-fish, all which are found off the coast.
The salmon are packed in ice, and sent to the London
market, and the white-fish chiefly to the market of Aberdeen.
Three boats, of fourteen tons' burthen, with crews
of six men, belonging to this place, go during the season
to the herring-fishery on the north coast. There is a
pier, at which vessels occasionally land supplies of
various articles; but since the breaking up of a Greenland
company, which had a boiling-establishment here,
it has not been much frequented. A school in the village
is supported by the fees.