SAMUEL HIBBERT, M.D., F.R.S.E., &c. 'Dispecta est et THULE."-TACITUS. UNIV. OF PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH; AND HURST, ROBINSON AND CO. LONDON. Edinburgh, 1822. REPRINTED BY T. & J. MANSON, Lerwick, 1891. TO THE WERNERIAN SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH THE PRESENT VOLUME IS, WITH MUCH RESPECT, INSCRIBED, AS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE HIGH ESTIMATION ENTERTAINED BY THE WRITER REGARDING THE OBJECTS OF THAT INSTITUTION AND THE ZEAL OF ITS MEMBERS IN ILLUSTRATING THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 832876 PREFACE TO THE REPRINT. H IBBERT'S valuable work on Shetland having become very scarce, and accessible only to a limited few, the more interesting parts of the book, (the geological section being omitted), were reprinted in the "Shetland News" in the course of 1890-91. A very general desire was expressed, when the proposal to reprint the work in the newspaper was announced, that at the same time an opportunity should be afforded to the public of procuring it in book form. Hence the issue of this volume. As it was not intended to reproduce the book in an expensive form, arrangements were not made for including the plates and maps which are given in the original, but as a specimen of the former, one page of the engravings has been reproduced in fac simile; and the music of two native airs has been added. The spelling of the original has been adhered to throughout, and in other respects every effort has been made to reproduce an accurate reprint of the original volume. T. & J. MANSON. Distant View of Fair Isle, 4.-Traditionary Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Spanish Armada in 1588, 4.-Approach to Dunrossness, 8.-Grutness Voe to Quendal, 12.-Remarks on the Dark Period of the History of Shetland and Orkney, 13.-Quendal Bay, 19. History of the Udallers of Shetland, 34.-Appendix to the History, 65.-Holms of Quendal Bay, 69.-Fitfiel Head, 70.-Garthsness, 72.- Sumburgh, 73.-Sumburgh to Sandwick, 81.-Ancient Weapons of War discovered in Shetland, 82.--Burgh of Mousa, 86.--Burroland, 89.-Sand- lodge, 90.-Coningsburgh, 91.-Fladibister to Scalloway, 92.--Scalloway, 93.-Tingwall, 98.- Ancient State of the Jurisdiction of Shetland, 99.-Tingwall to Lerwick, 106.-Lerwick, 107. -Islands of Bressay and Noss, 109.-Lerwick to Catfirth, 111.-Eswick to Lunna, 114.-Island of Whalsey and the Out-Skerries, 116. Illustrations of the Law of Udal Succession, 119.-Illustrations of the Feudal Tenures of Shetland, |