A Voyage to St. Kilda: The Remotest of All the Hebrides. Or, Western Isles of Scotland. ... To which is Added, An Account of Roderick, the Late Imposter There, ... By M. Martin, Gent |
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... Point of Scotland ; this obliged us to make the best of our Way for St. Kilda , though labouring under the Difadvantages of Wind and Tide almoft contrary to us . Our Crew be- came extremely fatigu'd and difcouraged with- out fight of ...
... Point of Scotland ; this obliged us to make the best of our Way for St. Kilda , though labouring under the Difadvantages of Wind and Tide almoft contrary to us . Our Crew be- came extremely fatigu'd and difcouraged with- out fight of ...
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... Point of the West Bay is fix Fathom high above Water , four in Breadth , fifty Paces in Length ; the Top two Fathom thick , and very strong , the Cattle feeding upon it . There are feveral Veins of different Stone to be seen in the ...
... Point of the West Bay is fix Fathom high above Water , four in Breadth , fifty Paces in Length ; the Top two Fathom thick , and very strong , the Cattle feeding upon it . There are feveral Veins of different Stone to be seen in the ...
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... Point of St. Kilda , and the Ifle Soa , is the famous Rock Stackdonn , i . e . as much , in their Language , as a Mischievous Rock , for it hath prov'd fo to fome of their Number , who perished in at- tempting to climb it ; it is much ...
... Point of St. Kilda , and the Ifle Soa , is the famous Rock Stackdonn , i . e . as much , in their Language , as a Mischievous Rock , for it hath prov'd fo to fome of their Number , who perished in at- tempting to climb it ; it is much ...
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... Point of the Rock , which when he has got hold of , puts him above Danger , and having a Rope about his Middle , that he cafts down to the Boat , by the help of which he carries up as many Perfons as are defigned for Fowling at this ...
... Point of the Rock , which when he has got hold of , puts him above Danger , and having a Rope about his Middle , that he cafts down to the Boat , by the help of which he carries up as many Perfons as are defigned for Fowling at this ...
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... Point at the Top ; it is vifible above twenty Leagues diftant in a fair Day , and appears blew ; there is no Grafs nor Earth to cover it , and it is perfectly white with Solan Geefe fit- ting on and about it . One would think it next to ...
... Point at the Top ; it is vifible above twenty Leagues diftant in a fair Day , and appears blew ; there is no Grafs nor Earth to cover it , and it is perfectly white with Solan Geefe fit- ting on and about it . One would think it next to ...
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Page 35 - ... their corruption ; they preserve them six, seven or eight months, as above said ; and then they become appetizing and loosening, especially those that begin to turn.
Page 27 - The Solan geese have always some of their mimber keeping centry in the night, and if they are surprised, as it often happens, all the flock are taken one after another; but if the centinel be awake at the approach of the creeping fowlers, and hear a noise, it cries softly, grog, grog...
Page 25 - ... 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 34 - 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.
Page 26 - ... it hath four toes ; the feet and legs black as far as they are bare ; the plumage is like that of a goose. The colour of the old ones is white all over, excepting the extreme tips of the wings, which are black, and the top of the head, which is yellow, as some think the effect of age. The young ones are of a hard brown colour, turning white after they are a year old...
Page 17 - ... be only for the space of one minute ; during which time his feet have no support, nor any part of his body touches the...
Page 51 - Macleod's presence, bowing his head and hand low near to the ground, his retinue doing the like behind him one after another, making, as it were, a chain...
Page 4 - ... put in under the hollow of an extraordinary high rock, to the north of this isle, which was all covered with a prodigious number of solan geese hatching in their...
Page 68 - 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 moved them to undergo danger...