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Pomona (Largest and most populous)

the largest and most populous of the Orkney Islands; length from N. W. to S. E., 23 miles; extreme POMONA POMPEII breadth, about 15 miles, but at the town founded about 600 в. c. by the Oscans, of Kirkwall only about 2½ miles; area, and after them, occupied by the Tyr- 150 square miles. Pop. 17,165. The rheno-Pelasgians, and by the Samnites, surface is covered in great part by moor and heath, but good pasture is also to be found and in the valleys a good loamy soil occurs. The principal towns are Kirkwall and Stromness.