A description of the isles of Orkney. [Followed by] An essay concerning the Thule of the ancients [by sir R. Sibbald]. [J. Wallace] in the ed. of 1700. Ed. by J. Small1883 |
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Page 249 - ... which knit the two walls together, and run " quite round the building; and there have " been winding ftairs of the fame flat ftones " afcending betwixt wall and wall, up to the
Page viii - Part of a journal kept from Scotland to New Caledonia in Darien, with a short account of that country.
Page 120 - ... iam vero principum filios liberalibus artibus erudire, et ingenia Britannorum studiis Gallorum anteferre, ut qui modo linguam Romanam abnuebant, eloquentiam concupiscerent. inde etiam habitus nostri honor et frequens toga. paulatimque discessum ad delenimenta vitiorum, porticus et balnea et conviviorum elegantiam. idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.
Page 99 - This nobleman, having undone his estate by riot and prodigality, did seek by unlawful shifts to repair the same, making acts in his Courts, and exacting penalties for the breach thereof ; as if any man was tried to have concealed any thing that might infer a pecuniary mulct, and bring profit to the earl, his lands and goods were declared confiscated ; or if any person did sue for justice before any other judge than his deputies, his goods were escheated ; or if they went forth of the isle without...
Page 34 - Remark here that these Finnmen drive away the fishes from the place to which they come. These Finnmen seem to be some of these people that dwell about the Fretum Davis, a full account of whom may be seen in the natural and moral History of the Antilles, Chap. 18. One of their boats sent from Orkney to Edinburgh is to be seen in the Physicians' hall with the Oar and Dart he makes use of for killing Fish.
Page 30 - Likewise in the links of Tranabie in Westra, have been found graves in the sand, (after the sand hath been blown away with the wind) in one of which was seen a man lying with his sword on the one hand, and a Daneish ax on the other, and others that have had dogs, and combs and knives buried with them...
Page 36 - Of Seaport Towns In seaport towns, where men expose themselves to a thousand dangers, and go abroad to live or die in distant climates, there are fewer men than women: and yet we see more children there than in other places. This proceeds from the greater ease with which they procure the means of subsistence. Perhaps even the oily parts of fish are more proper to furnish that matter which contributes to generation.
Page 20 - Earns, he is to have a Hen out of every house in the parish, in which it is killed.
Page 117 - cum reliquis fructibus floreat vehementer, distans " a continente plurimum dierum itinere, &c. And Bochartus confirms this by what he observes, That the Ancient writer Antonius Diogenes, who wrote twenty four books of the strange things related of Thule, not long after the time of Alexander the Great, had his history from the Cipariss tables digged at Tyrus out of the Tombs of Mantinia and Dercilis, who had gone from Tyrus to Thule, and had stayed some time there. But though this be the first Thule...
Page 34 - ... at sea, how to make their way home again ; they have this advantage, that be the Seas never so boisterous, their boats being made of Fish Skins, are so contrived that he can never sink, but is like a Sea-gull swimming on the top of...