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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![Beflia! is Kine and Oxen and but few Sheep ; they have abundance of little Horfes that patlure in the Hills both Summer and Winter without being tlabled at all: the Inhabitants ufe to filh in fmall Boats, being four or tix Men in them the piece, and they fell their fillies, to the Bremer or Hamburgh Merchants that ufe to Traffick heie : the Inhabitants generally are Irreligious and much given to Venerie, and to Tobacco, and they have a drink made of Milk and Water, which they call Bland, which m the Winter time growes four as Vinegar ; and they have a Language which they call Norn, that differs from the Danijh : the Goverment of the Me is by Bailzies. In tne Me of Qualfay there is a little Hill, on the top of which, if you fet a Compafs, the Needle will Hand con¬ trary, the South point looking to the North, and being removed but two foot from that place it Hands right: and in the Ifle of Fetlar, at Odjla is a Chapel], where if you place a Compafs, the Needle will flil! run round without retting. Concerning the Natural Advantages of Shetland, for the Inhabitants, and their Ufefulnefs to the Crown of GREA T-BRITAIN. Chapter eleventh. ^LBEIT thefe Illes of Shetland lye far North from the Continent of GREA T-BRITAIN, in the Main Ocean ; and can have little Commerce in the Winter time with it, yet, Nature (by their Situation in the North Paffage to the Countries upon the Baltick Sea, and to both the Indies, and by the conveniencie of their Bavs and Sounds, and by the Qualitie of the Country which dif- pofeth all the Inhabitants to Trade, and to Fifhing) has](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29320975_0093.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
