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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67329	An account of the Islands of Orkney by James Wallace ... ; to which is added an essay concerning the Thule of the ancients.	Wallace, James, d. 1688.; Sibbald, Robert, Sir, 1641-1722. Essay concerning the Thule of the ancients.	1700 (1700)	Wing W491; ESTC R34706	63,791	200

of Cathnes over-against this Country or from some Colony of the Picts who first Planted this Country and from some Similitude with the Name whereby they call'd themselves might be so call'd by the Romans As for the English name Orkney it may be derived from some Pictish Prince as Erick or Orkenwald or some other who has been famous in the first Plantation or might have got the name from some remarkable Title which the first Planters the Pights took to themselves for Picts or Pights as Verstegan says in the Teutonick Tongue signifies Fighters and Orkney may come from Ear which signifies Honour and Kyn which signifies on Off-spring as if the name were intended to shew That they were an Off-spring or Generation of Honour This Country lies in the Northern temperate Zone and thirteenth Climate the Longitude being 22 Degrees and 11 Minutes and Latitude 59 Degrees and 2 Minutes the Compass varying eight Degrees so that the length of the longest Day is eighteen Hours and some odd Minutes yet notwithstanding that this Country is so far remov'd to the North the Air is temperate and wholsome agreeing well with those Constitutions that can endure a little Cold. At Midnight it is so clear for a great part of June that one may read a Letter in his Chamber yet it cannot be true what Bleau reports That from the Hill of Hoy a Man may see the Sun at Midnight for it cannot be the true Body of the Sun that is seen but the Image of it refracted through some watry Cloud about the Horizon seeing it must be as far depressed under our Horizon in June as it is elevated above it in December which is by many Degrees for from that Hill the Sun is to be seen in the shortest Day in December above five Hours The Air and Clouds here by the operation of the Sun do sometimes generate several things as some Years since some Fishermen Fishing half a League from Land over-against Copinsha in a fair Day there fell down from the Air a Stone about the bigness of a Foot-ball which fell in the middle of the Boat and sprung a Leake to the great danger of the Lives of the Men that were in it which could be no other than some Substance generated in the Clouds The Stone was like condensed or petrefied Clay and was a long time in the custody of Captain Andrew Dick at that time Steward of this Country and Captain Dick who is yet alive told me he gave it to the late Earl of Glencairn Here the Winters are generally more subject to Rain than Snow nor does the Frost and Snow continue so long here as in other parts of Scotland but the Wind in the mean time will often blow very boisterously and it Rains sometimes not by drops but by spouts of Water as if whole Clouds fell down at once In the Year 1680 in the Month of June after great Thunder there fell flakes of Ice near a foot thick This Country is wholly surrounded with the Sea having Pightland-Firth on the South the Deucaledonian Ocean on the West the Sea that divides it from Zetland on the North and the German Sea on the East Zetland stands North-East and by East from Orkney and from the Start of Sanda in Orkney to Swinburg Head the most Southerly Point in Zetland is about eighteen leagues where there is nothing but Sea all the way save Fair Isle which lies within eight Leagues of Swinburg-Head Pightland-Firth which divides this Country from Cathnes is in breadth from Duncansbay in Cathnes to the nearest point of South-Ronalsha in Orkney about twelve Miles in it are a great many different Tides reckon'd to the number of twenty four which run with such an impetuous force that a Ship under sail is no more able to make way against the Tide than if it were hinder'd by a Remora which I conceive is the reason why some have said they have found the Remora in these Seas In this Firth about two Miles from the Coast of Cathnes lies Stroma a little pleasant Island but because of its vicinity to Cathnes and its being still under the Jurisdiction of the Lords of that Country it is not counted as one of the Isles of Orkney On the North-side of this Isle is a part of Pightland-Firth call'd the Swelchie of Stroma and at the West-end of the Isle betwixt it and Mey in Cathnes there is another part of the Firth call'd the Merry Men of Mey both which are very dangerous to Seamen The Sea ebbs and flows here as in other places yet there are some Phaenomena the reason of which cannot so easily be found out as in the Isle of Sanda it flows two hours sooner on the West-side than it does on the East-side and in North Faira which lies betwixt Eda and Westra the Sea ebbs nine hours and flows but three And at Hammoness in Sanda both ebb and flood run one way except at the be ginning of a quick Stream when for two or three hours the flood runs South The Sea here is very turbulent in a Storm and uneasie even to those on Land especially in those places of the Country that lie expos'd to Pightland-Firth and the Western Ocean for when the Storm beats that way the Sea dashes with such violence against the Rocks that a great deal of the Sea is carry'd in some places near a quarter of a mile on the Land and falls like a great shower of Rain on the Ground which is very oft prejudicial to their Corn at certain Seasons The Tides also are very swift and violent by reason of the multitude of the Isles and narrowness of the Passage for when all the rest of the Sea is smooth these Tides carry their Waves and billows high and run with such violence that they cause a contrary motion in the Sea adjoyning to the Land which they call Easter-birth or Wester-birth according to its course yet notwithstanding of the great rapidity of these Tides and Births the Inhabitants daily almost travel from Isle to Isle about their several affairs in their little Cockboats or Yoals as they call them Whatever the Ancients have written of the number of the Islands of Orkney it 's certain there are but twenty six at present inhabited viz. South-Ronalsha Swinna Hoy and Waes Burra Lambholm Flotta Faira Cava Gramsey Pomona or Mainland Copinsha Shapinsha Damsey Inhallo Stronsa Papa-Stronsa Sanda North-Ronalsha Eda Rousa Wyre Gairsa Eglesha North-Faira Westra Papa-Westra The rest of the Islands are call'd Holms and are only used for Pasture all of them being separated from one another by some narrow Streights Most of these Islands names end in a or ey which in the Teutonick signifieth Water to shew that these Isles are pieces of Land surrounded with Water These Islands are of different Natures some Sandy some Marsh some abounding in Heath and Moss and some that have none some of them Mountainous and some Plain Of these some are call'd the