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Those who have never experienced it can have no conception of the biting, penetrating coldness of a gale of wind in the northern seas. On the fourth night we sailed safely past the Shetland Islands; and on the evening of the fifth day we passed so near the majestic rocky group of the Feroe Islands, that we were at one time apprehensive of being cast upon the rocks by the unceasing gale.
Hamilton's to supply his place, a clergyman not much beyond the prime of life; one who for seven years had devoted himself, laboriously and unceasingly, to a poor and unprofitable parish in one of the Feroe Islands; in the service of Mr. Hamilton he had been employed, though voluntarily he had accepted, nay, eloquently he had pleaded for the office.
The discovery of Iceland, about the year of our Lord 860, is attributed to the spirit of enterprise of some Swedish and Norwegian pirates, who were drifted thither on a voyage to the Feroe Isles. As the newcomers are said to have found no traces of dwellings, they are presumed to be the first who took possession of the island.
Brown-Sequard, Dr., on the inheritance of the effects of operations by guinea-pig. Bruce, on the use of the elephant's tusks. Brulerie, P. de la, on the habits of Ateuchus cicatricosus; on the stridulation of Ateuchus. Brunnich, on the pied ravens of the Feroe islands. Bryant, Dr., preference of tame pigeon for wild mate. Bryant, Captain, on the courtship of Callorhinus ursinus.
"The law, Miss Ellen," began Judge Reeves, clearing his throat, "allows the reducing to possession of animals feroe naturoe, that is to say, of wild nature, and ancient custom sanctions it." "They were already reduced" she flashed. "The sport was in getting them the first time, not in butchering them afterward." Stevenson and Williams rubbed their chins and looked at each other.
What a contrast between two parts of the same zone; between the sky of Cumana, where the air is constantly pure as in Persia and Arabia, and the sky of the Rio Negro, veiled like that of the Feroe islands, without sun, or moon or stars!
After the cold and barren living at Feroe, exiled as he there had been from any of his own rank in life, the Vicarage at Castle Terryn and the society those duties included, formed to him indeed a happy resting-place; while his many excellent qualities soon reconciled St. Eval and his Countess to Myrvin's desertion, as they called his accepting the rectory at Oakwood.
This work, which was published at Copenhagen in 1800, is the only accurate account of these islands since the Feroe Reserata of Debes in 1673; but it is too minute and long for the subjects it describes. Coxes's Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark. 5 vols. 8vo. The substantial merits of this work are well known.
For an oath taken under such circumstances would be no oath at all, inasmuch as Schamyl holding to the Mahometan as well as Romanist doctrine that no faith is to be kept with infidels, and considering the Muscovites to be not only such but even half devils, and feroe naturoe, would feel himself in conscience under no obligations whatever to abide by what he had sworn to. So it was arranged.
A writer on the history of the Feroe Islands describes these extraordinary courts as if he had witnessed them. The crows collect in great numbers, as if they had been all summoned for the occasion.
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