The Orkneys And Shetland Their Past And Present State PDF Download

Excerpt from The Orkneys and Shetland: Their Past and Present State Whilst writing a series of papers, which, during the years 1878, 79, and 80, appeared in the columns of The Field under the title of Rambling and Angling Notes from Shetland, I was struck by the fact, that there was no book in existence that brought the past and present condition of that northern group before the reader. The works of Drs. Edmonston and Hibbert, admirable as both were at the time they were published, are not only, at the present day, out of date, but also out of print. Such being the case I at first thought of compiling a book on Shetland alone; however, on going more fully into the matter I found that any historical description of Shetland must constantly refer to the Orkneys, and that, in addition, the southern group required writing up to date nearly as much as the northern one. I therefore spent several months in the autumn of 1880 amongst the different islands of the Orcadian group, and embodied the results of my rambles in some papers which, under the title of Orcadian Jottings, appeared in the columns of The Field in the course of the following year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.