A Vertebrate Fauna of the Outer Hebrides Book

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1888 Original Publisher: D. Douglas Subjects: Zoology Hebrides (Scotland) Geology Western Isles (Scotland) Vertebrates Natural history Nature / General Science / Earth Sciences / General Science / Earth Sciences / Geology Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE FLANNAN ISLES.1 Regarding the Flannan Isles, or, as they are also called," The Seven Hunters," or "Seaforth's Hunters," several authors have written, but none so fully as these islands seem to merit. The difficulty of landing upon their almost precipitous sides, which can only be accomplished in the calmest and finest weather, and then only with ease upon the two largest, has no doubt interfered greatly with any attempt to survey them thoroughly. Dean Munro devotes rather more space to them than he usually does, and his account is not without interest. He writes as follows: -- " Seven Haley Isles. -- First, furth 50 myle in the Occident seas from the coste of the parochin of Vye in Lewis, towarts the west northwest, lyes the seven isles of Flanayn, claid with girth, and Haley isles. Very natural gressing within the saids isles: infinit wyld scheipe therein, quhilk na man knawes to quhom the said scheipe apperteines within them that liues this day of the countrymen; bot M'Cloyd of the Lewis, at certaine tyrnes in the zeir, sendis men in, and huntis and slayis maney of thir sheipe; the flesche of thir sheipe cannot be eaten be honest men for fatnesse, for ther is na flesche on them, but all quhyte like talloune, and it is verey wyld gusted lykways. The saids isles are nouder manurit, nor inhabit, but full of grein high hills full o...Read More