A Description of the Isles of Orkney Author:James Wallace General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: W. Brown Description: "An essay concerning the Thule of the ancients, where it is shewen that the Thule mentioned by the Roman writers, was the north east part of Britain, lying over against the Isles of Orkney ... Edinburgh, Printed by J. Reid, 1693.": 1... more » l., p. [113]-149. Subjects: Qaanaaq (Greenland) Thule (Greenland) Orkney (Scotland) History / Europe / General History / Europe / Great Britain 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: CHAP. III. Of Farrests, Rivers, Lochs, Sfc. And what Moon causeth High Water. THERE is no Forrest or Wood in all this Country, nor any Trees, except some that are in the Bishop's Garden at Kirkwal, where are some Ashes and thorn and Plum- Trees ; there are besides there and in some other Gentlemen's Gardens, some Apple and Cherrie Trees, but they seldome bear fruit that come to any Maturity : (a) Yet it seems there hath been Woods growing in this Country, for in the Mosses they find Trees with their Branches intire of 20 or 30 foot length. f This Country being divided in small Islands, it cannot be expected there should be in it any Rivers, yet there is every where a great many Bourns and torrents, well replenished withTrouts, both small and great, some of them like to young Salmon. Yet here and there a coppice or small wood is to be seen, also a quantity of shrubs on which grow all sorts of berries, as juniper-berries, black-berries,« less