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Sutherland, Caithness, Wester Ross, Skye, the Orkneys, Harris, and Lewis were represented at the meeting; Bailie Anderson also 'would state with confidence that the market was approved of by William Chisholm, Esq., of Chisholm, and James Laidlaw, tacksman, of Knockfin; and so the matter was settled for ever and aye, and the Courier and the Morning Chronicle were the London advertising media.
Of these some two hundred were drowned in the wreck of their vessel off the Orkneys. The main body were penned up in Greyfriars Churchyard; many escaped; more signed a promise to remain peaceful, and shun conventicles. There was more of cruel carelessness than of the deliberate cruelty displayed in the massacres and hangings of women after Philiphaugh and Dunaverty.
As I sat on a chair near the door, weary after my long tramp with the heavy burden of silver and the dead hawk, and somewhat bruised by my fight, Mr. Drever and the captain engaged in a long conversation relating to the Orkneys. But during an interval of their talk I ventured to draw the schoolmaster's attention to the dead bird that I had brought for him.
The survey of the twelve principal islands, and of the innumerable and all but barren rocks, making up this archipelago, occupied but a short time. Two years later Botwell discovered the Southern Orkneys, and then Palmer and other whalemen sighted, or thought they sighted, districts to which they gave the names of Palmer and Trinity.
Five hundred miles of dangerous navigation by the Orkneys and Cape Wrath would thereby be saved, while ships of war, were this track open to them, might reach the north of Ireland in two days from Fort George near Inverness. When the scheme of the proposed canal was revived in 1801, Mr. Telford was requested to make a survey and send in his report on the subject.
I hear also that thou hast done this deed because a certain man, Hall of Lithdale whom from his youth up I have known for a liar and a knave, and whom thou thyself didst mistrust in years gone by has come hither to Iceland from Orkneys, bearing a tale of Eric's dealings with thy half-sister Swanhild.
A letter from George! They have done with the north coast and they have crossed the wild sea to the Orkneys. Wonderful weather has favored them so far; and George is in better health and spirits. Ah! how much happiness there is in life if we only have the patience to wait for it. "2d October. Another letter. They are safe in the harbor of Lerwick, the chief port in the Shetland Islands.
Chamberlain could avoid committing himself on the ownership of the Orkneys if some Scandinavian country suddenly claimed them. If this embodied other points to which there was legitimate doubt, I believe Mr.
The winds, prevailing, as they do, from the southward and westward, had carried the floes, aided by currents, into that icy region bounded on the north by Georgia, east by Sandwich Land and the South Orkneys, and west by the South Shetland islands.
He sate almost always in Birsay, and let them build there Christchurch, a splendid Minster. There first was set up a bishop's seat in the Orkneys." The Annals of Tighernac record a great Norse expedition with the aid of the Galls of Orkney and Innse Gall and Dublin to subdue the Saxons in 1057, which failed.
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