PORTEASIE, a village, in the parish of Rathven,
county of Banff; containing 362 inhabitants. This is
a fishing-village, situated nearly two miles eastward of
Buckie. In 1827 it had but five houses, built by Hay of
Rannes, the proprietor of the soil, for the accommodation
of the first fishermen, who came from Findhorn in
Morayshire. The number of boats now belonging to the
place is about forty, of which two-thirds are of large,
and the remainder of small, size, all engaged, with the
boats belonging to the other fishing-villages in the parish,
in taking herrings and the various kinds of fish
found in the adjacent seas.