WHITEHILLS, a village, in the parish of Boyndie,
county of Banff, 2^ miles (W. N. W.) from Banff; containing
626 inhabitants. It is situated on the coast of
the Moray Firth, midway between the towns of Banff
and Portsoy. About half of the population are engaged
in the herring, salmon, and lobster fisheries carried on
in the adjacent seas. The first of these occupies from
twenty to twenty-five boats from July to September;
and the herrings, when cured, are exported to Germany
and Ireland. Sixteen boats, during the ren\ainder of
the fishing season, are employed in taking haddocks,
ling, cod, and other fish, in general very successfully:
the salmon caught at Blaekpots, near here, average in
value £225 yearly, and when iced, or boiled and pickled
with vinegar, are sent to the London market. The
lobster-fishery is carried on by five or six boats with
basket-nets; upwards of 1000 lobsters are taken iu the
season, averaged at fourpence each, and sent to London
in smacks provided with wells. The annual value of
the whole of the fisheries in the parish is computed at
£3000.