. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. ISLANDS OF THE NOETH ATLANTIC. I.—THE FAEOER HE " Sheep," or " Navigators' " Islands, as the term has been variously interpreted, depend politically on Denmark, but have no geographical connection with Scandinavia. Isolated in mid- Atlantic, they are surrounded by abysses several hundred yards in depth, the submarine plateau on which they rest forming a sort of quadrangular support, enclosed by the deepest waters on the east or Scandina- vian side, and twice as far removed from that region as from the Shetlands, Orkne
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. ISLANDS OF THE NOETH ATLANTIC. I.—THE FAEOER HE " Sheep," or " Navigators' " Islands, as the term has been variously interpreted, depend politically on Denmark, but have no geographical connection with Scandinavia. Isolated in mid- Atlantic, they are surrounded by abysses several hundred yards in depth, the submarine plateau on which they rest forming a sort of quadrangular support, enclosed by the deepest waters on the east or Scandina- vian side, and twice as far removed from that region as from the Shetlands, Orkneys, and Hebrides. The Faroer Bank is also connected with the Hebrides by a submarine ridge, and to judge from their general direction, the islands themselves seem to be fragments of a former range, of which Rockall is another remnant, and which ran parallel with the crests of the Caledonian groups and the north of Scotland. In their climate, flora, and fauna the Faroer also reseoable these lands, which, however, are all alike Scandinavian rather than British in respect of their inhabitants. Like the Shetlands and Orkneys, they are composed of a few large and thinly peopled islands, of some uninhabited islets affording pasture for sheep, and of barren rocks frequented by flocks of sea-fowl. The surface is almost everywhere hilly, with bold headlands, and heights of over 2,000 feet in Stromo and Ostero, culminating with the Slattaretindur (2,756 feet), on the north coast of Ostero. The rocks, covered with a thin layer of humus, are grassy or mossy, delicate transitions of plants, fern, and heath following in succession from sea-level to the topmost summits. The houses, mostly scattered, take the hue of the rocks, owing to the sods of which their roofs are formed, and hence are not easily detected even at short distances. Like those of Scotland and Scandinavia, the rocks are scored by the action of ice, and the lines running east and west, or north and south, clearly show that w
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