 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 1028 pages
...have a wild and desolate appearance ; but 17 of them are inhabited. Their vegetation is more scanty than that of the Orkneys, and their soil, for the most part, is marshy. The shores are broken and precipitous, and excavated by the sea into natural arches and deep caverns.... | |
 | Adriano Balbi - 1835 - 578 pages
...inhabited; the rest are rocky islets called holms, used only for pasturage. Their vegetation is more scanty than that of the Orkneys, and their soil, for the most part, is marshy. The shores are broken and precipitous, and excavated by the sea into natural arches and deep caverns.... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1840 - 612 pages
...wild and desolate appearance ; but 17 of them are inhabited. Their vegetation is still more scanty than that of the Orkneys, and their soil, for the most part, is marshy. The shores are broken and precipitous, and excavated by the sea into natural arches and deep caverns.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1840 - 536 pages
...have a wild and desolate appearance ; but 17 of them are inhabited. Their vegetation is more scanty than that of the Orkneys, and their soil, for the most part, is marshy. The shores are broken and precipitous, and excavated by the sea into natural arches and deep caverns.... | |
 | Charles Anthon - 1841 - 664 pages
...that of others is excellent. The Shetland or Zetland islands are eightysit in number, of which forty are inhabited. They contain granite and rocks of igneous...Orkneys, and their soil for the most part is marshy. (Malle- Brun, vol. 8, p. 684.) OKCHOUËNCS, I. a celebrated city of Bœotia, near the Cephissus, and... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1846 - 604 pages
...have a wild and desolate appearance ; but 17 of them are inhabited. Their vegetation is more scanty than that of the Orkneys, and their soil, for the most part, is marshy. The shores are broken and precipitous, and excavated by the sea into natural arches and deep caverns.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 1016 pages
...have a wild and desolate appearance ; but 17 of them are inhabited. Their vegetation is more scanty than that of the Orkneys, and their, soil, for the most part, is marshy. The shores are broken and precipitous, and excavated by the sea into natural arches and deep caverns.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 828 pages
...have a wild and desolate appearance ; but 17 of them are inhabited. Their vegetation is more scanty than that of the Orkneys, and their soil, for the most part, is marshy. The shores are broken and precipitous, and excavated by the sea into natural arches and deep caverns.... | |
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... of the inhabitants is bird-catching. The Shetland Islands lie about 60 miles north-east of the Orkneys. They have a wild and desolate appearance ; but 17 of them are inhabited. Their vegetation is more scanty than that of the Orkneys, and their soil,... 