FOULAH, an island in the Atlantic Ocean, connected with Zetland, from which it is distant about 20 miles west. It is situated in North Latitude 60° 4', and West Longitude 1° 45'. It is about three miles long, and one mile broad, chiefly formed of very high ground, and presenting to the ocean several precipices, from 800 to 900 feet in height. There is one landing-place, which can be taken in calm weather only. During a storm, all is foam and spray, and the island is then inaccessible. The rocks are gneiss and mica slate, supporting horizontal beds of sandstone, slate, clay, and clay-ironstone. In the cliffs of sandstone, innu merable multitudes of sea•fowl hatch their young. When approached in a boat, in the breeding season, if any noise is made, tr.e old birds leave their nests in such numbers as to darken the air, Here the different kinds of gulls re sort, and here also the scorn:finch (Procclla•ia pelagicu) breeds. On the hills, the Skua gull may be found ; au l iu the corn-fields of this remote island, the voice of the land rail proclaims summer.
The inhabitants, which do not amount to 200 souls, chief ly support themselves by fishing. They occupy about 60
marks of land, which they cultivate with the spade, and rear a few horses, sheep, hogs, and poultry. The rocks in summer yield the natives a rich supply of eggs and fea• tlers. In order to procure these, they run the greatest risks among the rocks, climbing by the assistmee of a rope among the niosf frightful precipices. As may be expect ed, many of these adventurous natives meet with an un timely death. This, to the relatives, while a subject of grief, is likewise matter of exultation, as the children will often be heard to boast that they are the descendants of those who have gaen afore, or of those who have perished among the rocks.
Several places along the shore were pointed out to the writer of this article, where these melancholy events had taken place.
This island is seen in clear weather from the Orkneys, and hence is supposed, with great probability, to have been the Ultima Thule of Tacitus.