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SAMUEL HIBBERT, M.D., F.R.S.E., &c.

'Dispecta est et THULE."-TACITUS.

UNIV. OF
CALIFORNIA

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH;

AND HURST, ROBINSON AND CO. LONDON.

Edinburgh, 1822.

REPRINTED BY T. & J. MANSON,

Lerwick, 1891.

PHELAN

LERWICK:

PRINTED BY T. & J. MANSON,

"NEWS" OFFICE.

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.

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