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Common terms and phrasesanal fin ash-coloured back-fin bays belly white bill bird Birsay Blenny boats body branchiostegous rays breast breeding-time Brit British Zoology brown builds caught Char.—Bill claws coasts colour common covered dog-fish dorsal fin drove ashore dusky eating eels eggs feathers feet fish fishermen flocks found very frequent GENUS Goosander gulls harbour of Stromness head hook Icth Illus inches long isles kind lapwing legs length loch of Stenness mandible mouth neck nest never nose nostrils numbers observed Orkney pectoral fins Pennant Pise placed Porpesse pretty prey Quad quantity Raii Syn Rati rocks round Scot season seen seldom sharks sharp Shetland shores side Sir Robert Sibbald Skates skin slender sometimes Species 1.—The spermaceti spines spotted strong summer tail teeth thick throat tongue upper vast numbers vent ventral fins Vide whole wings winter young Zool Popular passagesPage 70 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet. Page 8 - Has drunk the flood, and from his lively haunt The trout is banish'd by the sordid stream ; Heavy, and dripping, to the breezy brow Slow move the harmless race : where, as they spread Their swelling treasures to the sunny ray, Inly disturb'd, and wondering what this wild Outrageous tumult means, their loud complaints The country fill ; and, toss'd from rock to rock, Incessant bleatings run around the hills. Page 35 - Kilda's* shore ; whose lonely race Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, The royal eagle draws his vigorous young, Strong-pounc'd, and ardent with paternal fire ^ Now fit to raise a kingdom of their own, He drives them from his fort, the towering seat, For ages, of his empire ; which, in peace, Unstain'd he holds, while many a league to sea He wings his course, and preys in distant isles. Page 66 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise... Page 75 - Nestling repair, and to the thicket some : Some to the rude protection of the thorn Commit their feeble offspring. The cleft tree Offers its kind concealment to a few, Their food its insects, and its moss their nests. Others apart, far in the grassy dale, Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave. But most in woodland solitudes delight, In unfrequented glooms, or shaggy banks, Steep, and divided by a babbling brook, Whose murmurs soothe them all the live-long day, When by kind duty fix'd. Page 8 - Head above head : and, rang'd in lusty rows, The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding shears. The housewife waits to roll her fleecy stores, With all her gay-drest maids attending round. Page 67 - Though the whole loosen'd Spring around her blows, Her sympathizing lover takes his stand High on the' opponent bank, and ceaseless sings The tedious time away; or else supplies Her place a moment, while she sudden flits To pick the scanty meal. The... Page 8 - Or rushing thence, in one diffusive band, They drive the troubled flocks, by many a dog Compell'd, to where the mazy-running brook Forms a deep pool; this bank abrupt and high,. And that fair spreading in a pebbled shore. Page 9 - While the glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall. Meantime, their joyous task goes on apace : Some mingling stir the melted tar, and some, Deep on the new-shorn vagrant's heaving side, To stamp his master's cipher ready stand ; Others the... Page 35 - And once rejoicing never know them more. High from the summit of a craggy cliff, Hung o'er the deep, such as amazing frowns On utmost Kilda's * shore, whose lonely race Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, The royal eagle draws his vigorous young, Strong-pounced, and ardent with paternal fire. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarArchaeo-ichthyological Evidence for Long-term Socioeconomic Trends ...James H Barrett, Rebecca A Nicholson, Ruby Cerón-Carrasco - 1999 - Journal of Archaeological Science The excavation of four caves in the Geodha Smoo near Durness ...Tony Pollard, R Cerón-Cerrasco, C Smith, R Squair References from web pagesTHE GREAT EAGLE. JSTOR: Joseph Banks at Skara Brae and Stennis, Orkney, 1772 Birds Britain Bibliographic information
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