A Description of the Shetland Islands: Comprising an Account of Their Geology, Scenery, Antiquities, and SuperstitionsA. Constable and Company, 1822 - 616 Seiten |
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... Island of Yell , 383 Wood Cut from OLAUS MAGNUS , representing the Bysmer , 472 Various appearances of the Drongs ... Island of Foula from the Sea , Interior of the Island of Foula , Plate of Antiquities , Plate VI . Appendix ...
... Island of Yell , 383 Wood Cut from OLAUS MAGNUS , representing the Bysmer , 472 Various appearances of the Drongs ... Island of Foula from the Sea , Interior of the Island of Foula , Plate of Antiquities , Plate VI . Appendix ...
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... Island of Unst , 361. - Ser- pentine of the Island of Fetlar , 369. - Micaceous and Talcose Slate in the Island of Unst , 370. - Porphyritic Gneiss of the Island of Scaw , and of Lambaness , 371. - Euphotide or Diallage of the Islands ...
... Island of Unst , 361. - Ser- pentine of the Island of Fetlar , 369. - Micaceous and Talcose Slate in the Island of Unst , 370. - Porphyritic Gneiss of the Island of Scaw , and of Lambaness , 371. - Euphotide or Diallage of the Islands ...
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... island , when his unwieldy , anchorless ship struck and went to pieces , the commander and 200 of his men effecting a landing in their boats with the greatest difficulty . The Duke now found himself inclosed in a small island , the ...
... island , when his unwieldy , anchorless ship struck and went to pieces , the commander and 200 of his men effecting a landing in their boats with the greatest difficulty . The Duke now found himself inclosed in a small island , the ...
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... island ; they had eaten up every thing they could collect , such as horned cattle , sheep , fish , fowl , and even horses , when the natives were tempted , in self - defence , to evade the delivery of any farther contribution . To avoid ...
... island ; they had eaten up every thing they could collect , such as horned cattle , sheep , fish , fowl , and even horses , when the natives were tempted , in self - defence , to evade the delivery of any farther contribution . To avoid ...
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... island for drying fish , were so contrived as to be let fall upon the unsuspecting stran- gers , who were for this purpose invited to seek beneath them a shelter from the weather * . At length , all sustenance appeared to fail , not ...
... island for drying fish , were so contrived as to be let fall upon the unsuspecting stran- gers , who were for this purpose invited to seek beneath them a shelter from the weather * . At length , all sustenance appeared to fail , not ...
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afford ancient angles appears beds boat bounding line breadth Bressay Bressay Sound burgh Catfirth century character clay-slate claystone Cliff Hills coast colour contained contiguous Crown described diallage district Dunrossness Earl of Orkney earth east epidotic epidotic sienite euphotide feet felspar Fetlar feudal fish Fitfiel Foula geological geologists gneiss granite greenstone head Hillswick holm hornblende induced ingredients inhabitants island kind King length Lerwick limestone line of direction Lunna Mainland mass massive portions matter mica mica-slate miles named natives nature Ness Northmavine Norway observed occur Orkney and Shetland Papa Stour parish particles porphyry possession present primitive rocks quartz Quendal remarked Roeness sandstone Scalloway Scandinavian scathold Scotland Scottish serpentine shew shewn shore stones strata stratification structure substance supposed surface tenants tion udal lands ultimate layers Unst unstratified rocks Uyea veins vessels visited whilst Yell Sound Zetland
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Seite 260 - And every one that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Seite 447 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Seite 406 - Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide...
Seite 503 - I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation ; nor the musician's, which is fantastical ; nor the courtier's, which is proud ; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious ; nor the lawyer's, which is politic ; nor the lady's, which is nice ; nor the lover's, which is all these : but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects ; and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
Seite 219 - England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds ; That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself...
Seite 230 - Come on, sir. Now you set your foot on shore In Novo Orbe ; here's the rich Peru : And there within, sir, are the golden mines, Great Solomon's Ophir!
Seite 258 - And wither'd heaths I rove; Where tree, nor spire, nor cot appears, I pass to meet my love. But though my path were damask'd o'er With beauties e'er so fine, My busy thoughts would fly before To fix alone — on thine.
Seite 75 - He took her naked, all alone, Before one rag of form was on. The Chaos, too, he had descry'd, And seen quite through, or else he ly'd : Not that of Pasteboard, which men shew 565 For groats at fair of Barthol'mew ; But its great grandsire, first o...
Seite 204 - For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Seite 453 - His yron cote, all overgrowne with rust, Was underneath enveloped with gold, Whose glistring glosse, darkned with filthy dust, Well yet appeared to have beene of old A worke of...