Wick, county-town of Caithness, on Wick River, 161 m. NE. of Inverness, is the chief seat of the herring fishery in Scotland; Wick proper, with its suburbs Louisburgh and Boathaven, is on the N. of the river, and Pultneytown on the S.; has a few manufactures, with distilleries and breweries.
Population (circa 1900) given as 8,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Whyte-Melville, George John * Wicked Bible