CROMARTY, the capital of the above county, is situated upon a promontory jutting into the neck of the sea communicating from the Moray to the Cromarty Friths. The ground being slightly elevated, the town has the advantage of a dry as well as pleasant situation, and it is altogether one of the neatest and cleanest places of the size in Scotland. Its harbour is safe and capacious, and well adapted, from its situation, to become the depot of trade in the northern part of Britain. The principal manufacture is hempen bagging, which has been long carried on. There is an establishment for some branches of the woolen manufacture, an extensive brewery, and ship building is now also carried on. The staple trade, however, is the catching, curing, and exportation of herrings and other fish. The population of Cromarty amounted in 1821 to 2649, and in 1831 to 2901.