Glass Floats off the Isle of Lewis

Abstract

THE glass globes to which you refer as having been found on the shores of Lewis, are no doubt fishing floats. The Bergen fishermen have recently begun to use such balls as floats for their nets, and they are occasionally picked up in the North Sea. Those which have been brought to this office were empty, i.e, contained no liquid, and bore no distinguishing mark at all. They were picked up about 100 miles S.W. of the Loffoden Islands.