. The earth and its inhabitants ... urce of danger to the mariner, as the islands arefrequently enveloped in dense fogs, and an appeal to the sounding-lead affordsno information as to the proximity of land. Often, too, powerful roosts, ortidal currents, carry vessels out of their proposed course into the midst of Island, or Foula, which lies in raid-ocean, 18 miles to the west of Mainland,is more formidable of aspect than any other island of the Shetland group. Thesmall creek on its south-eastern coast is at all times dangerous of Kaim, or culminating summit of the isl
. The earth and its inhabitants ... urce of danger to the mariner, as the islands arefrequently enveloped in dense fogs, and an appeal to the sounding-lead affordsno information as to the proximity of land. Often, too, powerful roosts, ortidal currents, carry vessels out of their proposed course into the midst of Island, or Foula, which lies in raid-ocean, 18 miles to the west of Mainland,is more formidable of aspect than any other island of the Shetland group. Thesmall creek on its south-eastern coast is at all times dangerous of Kaim, or culminating summit of the island, rises to a height of 1,370 feet, and * John Wilson, British Farming, 316 THE BEITISII ISLES. its cliffs present sheer precipices of 1,000 feet. The hold men who visit thisrocky island in search of hirds and hirds eggs cause themselves to he attached toa rope, and lowered from the top of the cliffs. The Shetland Islandïs as well as the Orkneys have frequently heen identified Fis. 170.—The IslanpsSoale 1 : 401, 5 Miles. with the Ultima Thule of ancient writers, although there can be no doubt that theThule discovered by Pytheas of Marseilles, and placed by him under the ArcticCircle, must have been Iceland. The Hebrides, which lie to the west of Scotland,
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