Description of the islands of Orkney and Zetland ... / Reprinted from the edition of 1711, published under the superintendence of Sir Robert Sibbald.
- Monteith, Robert, Laird of Eglisha and Gairsa, active 1633.
- Date:
- 1845
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Description of the islands of Orkney and Zetland ... / Reprinted from the edition of 1711, published under the superintendence of Sir Robert Sibbald. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![There are many Eagls and Ravens here, but no Venemous Beall nor a Frog to be found in this Parifh. The principal Commodities are oyl, Butter, Herring, Wool, White Fifli, Hides, and Courfe Stockings. The Inhabitants are Hofpitable, fubtile, given to flat- terie. Their ordinary Drink is Blend, which is made of the Milk that remains of Churned Butter, being clarified and Barrelled up for Winter. ihere are no Antient Monuments here, except fome old Ruinous Houfes, built of dry ftone, called Pitts houfes or Broughs, and fome old Ruinous Chapells, built as is fuppofed by Ship-broken Merchants in the days of fuper- ftition, of which there is one called the Crcfs-kirk, where the fuperltitious Commons of old ufed to frequent in the filence of the night, each carrying their Candles with them, and then feafted and fported until day, but this fuperftitious Cuftome is now banithed. The Delcription of the Bland of UNST. Chapter tenth. ]j[NS 1 is the NorchmoA Ifland of Zetland, lying on the fixtie one degree of Latitude: from the South part to the North, which is the length of it, it is eight Miles, and the broadeft part of it will not exceed four Miles. The chief Harbour is called Uzea found, an ex¬ cellent large Harbour, not much inferiour to Breffay- found, it flows South-South-Eaft, of nine Fathoms deep, and very good Anchor ground at the Bottom. This Harbour has three entries, one lyes toward the Eafl called Skuda found, having two Holms to the South, the one is Grunzie, the other Weather-Holm, good for Pafturing of Sheep and other Beftial : the fecond entrie lies toward](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29320975_0089.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
