A Voyage to Shetland, the Orkneys, and the Western Isles of Scotland. Giving an account, of the laws, customs, antiquitics, natural curiosities, fisheries, &c. of these places; particularly the Herring-fisheries, with the present methods of catching, curing, packing, &c. The singular sincerity, honesty, and temperance of the inhabitants, their religious ceremonies, superstitions, charms, apparitions; and that amazing faculty of the second-sight, so frequent among them, by which future events are with certainly foretold.

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MDCCLI. [1751]
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London : Printed for C. Corbet, in Fleet-street, MDCCLI. [1751]

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[4],71,[1]p. ; 80.

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