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A Description of the Shetland Islands ... Reprinted (the geological section being omitted)

Samuel Hibbert · 1891 · Scanned text

182,924 words · about 12 h 49 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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Author
Samuel Hibbert
Language
English
Published
1891
Length
182,924 words · about 12 h 49 min
Sections
5 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (5)
  1. Front matter under 1 min
  2. Preface about 3 h
  3. Appendix about 8 h 3 min
  4. Prologue about 7 min
  5. Epilogue about 1 h 39 min
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DESCRIPTION OE Till SHETLAND ISLANDS A D DESCRIPTION OF THE SHETLAND ISLANDS, COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR SCENEET, ANTIQUITIES, AN SUPERSTITIONS, BY SAMUEL HIBBERT, M.D., F.R.S.E., &C. " Dispecta est et Thule." — Tacitus. PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH ; AND HURST, ROBINSON AND CO. LONDON. EMnburgb, 1822. REPRINTED BY T. & J. MANSON, Xerwicfc, LERWICK : PRINTED BY T. & J. MANSON, "NEWS" OFFICE. ENTI Of TO THE WERNERIAN SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH THE PRESENT VOLUME IS, WITH MUCH RESPECT, INSCRIBED, AS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TPIE HIGH ESTIMATION -'.KTAINED BY THE WRITER REGARDING THE OBJECTS THAT INSTITUTION AND THE ZEAL OF ITS MEMBERS IN ILLUSTRATING THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS.

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