A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands: Including Their Civil, Political, and Natural History; Antiquities; and an Account of Their Agriculture, Fisheries, Commerce, and the State of Society and Manners, Volume 2J. Ballantyne and Company, 1809 - 364 pages |
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A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands: Including ... Arthur Edmondston No preview available - 2014 |
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affection animal annually appears Balta Sound bays bird boats breed Bressa Sound Burra chiefly church coast of Zetland colour common gull composed considerable numbers Delting disease distance Dunrossness earl of Morton elephantiasis expence Fair-Isle feeds feet Fetlar fish flocks former Foula frequently Goose Greenland ground guillemot habits harbour Hascussay heritors hills hundred individuals island of Unst Isles kelp kind kittiwake labour landholders latter Lerwick Lucas Debes Lunnasting manner manufacture merks of rental mica slate micaceous shistus ministry native nest never Northmaven number of inhabitants observed occasions occur Orkney parish person Pontoppidan population present quantity Quarf remain rental land resembles rocks sandstone Sansting Scallaway scarcely Scotland season seen seldom share sheep shore Skerries sometimes species straw summer syst taken tang tenants Tingwall tion Trondra Uyea vessels visit Zetland weather whales whole winter wool wrecks Yell young Zetland islands