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... Ropes made of twifted Heath , the Extremity of which on each fide is poised with Stone to preferve the Thatch from being blown away . This little Village is feated in a Valley furrounded with Four Mountains , ferving as Ramparts of De ...
... Ropes made of twifted Heath , the Extremity of which on each fide is poised with Stone to preferve the Thatch from being blown away . This little Village is feated in a Valley furrounded with Four Mountains , ferving as Ramparts of De ...
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... Rope fastened to the Fore - part ; and a com- petent Number of them are employed on each fide ; both these are determined by a Cryer , who is employed on purpose to warn them all at the fame Minute , and he ceafes whenever he finds it ...
... Rope fastened to the Fore - part ; and a com- petent Number of them are employed on each fide ; both these are determined by a Cryer , who is employed on purpose to warn them all at the fame Minute , and he ceafes whenever he finds it ...
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... Rope about his Middle , which he cafts down to the Boat , by the help of this he brings up as many Perfons as are defigned for Fowling at this time ; the Foreman , or principal Climber has the Re- ward of four Fowls beftowed upon him ...
... Rope about his Middle , which he cafts down to the Boat , by the help of this he brings up as many Perfons as are defigned for Fowling at this time ; the Foreman , or principal Climber has the Re- ward of four Fowls beftowed upon him ...
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... Ropes were fent be- fore us ; we thought it indeed hazard enough to be near this Rock ; the Wind blowing fresh , we had much difficulty to reach St. Kilda again . I re- member they brought 800 of the preceeding Year's Solan Geefe dried ...
... Ropes were fent be- fore us ; we thought it indeed hazard enough to be near this Rock ; the Wind blowing fresh , we had much difficulty to reach St. Kilda again . I re- member they brought 800 of the preceeding Year's Solan Geefe dried ...
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... Rope , which manages the Horfe only on one fide ; they ride from the Shoar to the House , and when each Man has performed his Tour , the Show is at an end . They are very charitable to their Poor , of whom there are not at prefent above ...
... Rope , which manages the Horfe only on one fide ; they ride from the Shoar to the House , and when each Man has performed his Tour , the Show is at an end . They are very charitable to their Poor , of whom there are not at prefent above ...
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Page 35 - Every fowl lays an egg three different times except the Gair-fowl and Fulmar, which lay but once ; if the first or second egg be taken away, every fowl lays but one other egg that year, except the seamalls, and they ordinarily lay the third egg, whether the first and second eggs be taken away, or no. The inhabitants observe, that when the April moon goes far in May, the fowls are ten or twelve days later in laying their eggs, than ordinarily they use to be.
Page 60 - ... and exact three eggs, or one of the lesser fowls from each man as a reward for his service; this by them is called the Fire-Penny, and this Capitation is very uneasy to them...
Page 10 - Lavy, and a greater number of the lesser eggs, as they differed in proportion; the largest of these eggs is near in bigness to that of a Goose, the rest of the eggs gradually of a lesser size. We had the curiosity after three weeks...
Page 66 - ... people in the Golden Age is feigned by the poets to be, that theirs really is, I mean, in innocency and simplicity, purity, mutual love and cordial friendship, free from solicitous cares, and anxious covetousness; from envy, deceit, and dissimulation; from ambition and pride, and the consequences that attend them. They are altogether ignorant of the vices of foreigners, and governed by the dictates of reason and Christianity, as it was first delivered to them by those heroic souls whose zeal...
Page 66 - ... what the condition of the people in the golden age is feigned by the poets to be, that theirs really is; I mean, in. innocency and simplicity, purity, mutual love, and cordial friendship ; free from solicitous cares, and anxious covetousness ; from envy, deceit, and dissimulation ; from ambition and .pride, and the consequences that attend them.
Page 27 - ... breast, ie a bare spot from which the feathers have fallen off with the heat in hatching; its egg is twice as big as that of a Solan goose, and is variously spotted, black, green, and dark ; it comes without regard 'to any wind, appears the first of May, and goes away about the middle of June.
Page 1 - Voyage to St Kilda, the remotest of all the Hebrides, or Western Isles of Scotland: giving an Account of the very remarkable Inhabitants of that Place, their Beauty and singular...
Page 20 - Thumb, which is so little, that of all the parts of a man's body the thumb only can lay hold on it, and that must be only for the space of one minute ; during which time his feet have no support, nor any part of his body touches the stone, except the thumb, in which minute he...
Page 40 - ... for some end, but here there was no room for any, where nothing could be proposed ; but for confirmation of the whole, they appealed to the case of infants at the breast, who...
Page 48 - Inhabitants think long enough; the Daily Allowance paid by them is very regularly exacted, with Regard to their refpective Proportions of Lands and Rocks.