A Voyage Round the Coasts of Scotland and the Isles, 第 2 卷A. & C. Black, 1842 |
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... night , and for some time both before and after sunrise the wind was so light that we made but little pro- gress through a rolling sea . Yet by an early hour of the 2d August we came within sight of St. Kilda , distinguished from afar ...
... night , and for some time both before and after sunrise the wind was so light that we made but little pro- gress through a rolling sea . Yet by an early hour of the 2d August we came within sight of St. Kilda , distinguished from afar ...
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James Wilson. inclined than usual , in consequence of the tossing of the previous night . These birds are caught by stretching a piece of cord along the stony places where they chiefly congregate . To this cord are fastened , at ...
James Wilson. inclined than usual , in consequence of the tossing of the previous night . These birds are caught by stretching a piece of cord along the stony places where they chiefly congregate . To this cord are fastened , at ...
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... night in winter being scarcely thicker than a penny , and usually melting away , if the sun is at all visible , in the course of the ensuing day . The people pay their rent ( about £ 60 , as we were told ) chiefly by means of feathers ...
... night in winter being scarcely thicker than a penny , and usually melting away , if the sun is at all visible , in the course of the ensuing day . The people pay their rent ( about £ 60 , as we were told ) chiefly by means of feathers ...
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... night , their scanty bedding being placed ( in imi- tation of the puffins ) upon stones . There seems to have been only two of these dormitories in each habitation , however numerous the family may have been , and a peculiar and by no ...
... night , their scanty bedding being placed ( in imi- tation of the puffins ) upon stones . There seems to have been only two of these dormitories in each habitation , however numerous the family may have been , and a peculiar and by no ...
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... night like rats or rabbits , —for the middle portion of the flooring was by this time far above the opening to the so - called beds . To admit of this nocturnal entrance , the floor , or at least its superficial ashy portion , was beat ...
... night like rats or rabbits , —for the middle portion of the flooring was by this time far above the opening to the so - called beds . To admit of this nocturnal entrance , the floor , or at least its superficial ashy portion , was beat ...
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Ackergill Tower anchor ancient ashore aspect Balta Sound barrels Bart beautiful birds boats Borrera Bressay Bressay Sound Caithness called Castle cliffs coast cured Cutter dark deep Earl Edinburgh feet Firth fish fulmar gannets George ground hand harbour head hills Hillswick Holm houses inhabitants island isles James John Kilda kind Kirkwall land latter Lerwick ling Loch Loch Eribol lofty Lord Mackenzie miles minister morning mountain mouth native nature ness night northern Orcadian Orkney Papa Stour parish passed Pentland Firth portion precipitous Princess Royal proceeded Quendal Right rocks rocky sail Sarclet Scalloway Scalloway Castle scarcely Scotland sea-fowl season Secretary seemed seen Shetland shore side Sinclair solan Sound spawning species speedily stacks Statistical Account stones Street Sumburgh Head Tingwall tion tower Unst vessel walls weather western Wick wild wind
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第 42 頁 - Atlantic rock undreading climb, And of its eggs despoil the solan's nest. Thus blest in primal innocence, they live, Sufficed and happy with that frugal fare Which tasteful toil and hourly 'danger give. Hard is their shallow soil, and bleak and bare ; Nor ever vernal bee was heard to murmur there ! XI.
第 74 頁 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
第 358 頁 - Thou stout Italian, come thou here; Thy name is Anthony, most stout; Draw out thy sword that is most clear, And do thou fight without any doubt; Thy leg thou shake, thy neck, thou lout...
第 47 頁 - Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name: that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
第 420 頁 - Snorro tells us they thought it a shame and misery not to die in battle; and if natural death seemed to be coming on, they would cut wounds in their flesh, that Odin might receive them as warriors slain.
第 91 頁 - Gairfowl, being the stateliest, as well as the largest sort, and above the size of a Solan goose, of a black colour, red about the eyes, a large white spot under each, a long broad bill...
第 12 頁 - He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: 28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
第 42 頁 - O ! o'er all, forget not Kilda's race, On whose bleak rocks, which brave the wasting tides, Fair nature's daughter, virtue, yet abides. Go, just, as they, their blameless manners trace ! Then to my ear transmit some gentle song, Of those whose lives are yet sincere and plain, Their bounded walks the rugged cliffs along, And all their prospect but the wintry main. With sparing...
第 343 頁 - Atlantic, when provoked by wintry gales, batters against it with all the force of real artillery — the waves having, in their repeated assaults, forced themselves an entrance. This breach, named the Grind of the Navir, is widened every winter by the overwhelming surge that, finding a passage through it, separates large stones from its sides, and forces them to a distance of no less than 180 feet. In two or three spots, the fragments which have been detached are brought together in immense heaps,...
第 439 頁 - Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake.