[Gutenberg 61416] • Orkney and Shetland

Excerpt from Cambridge County Geographies: Orkney and Shetland

Iwish to thank Captain Malcolm Laing of Crook for the photograph from Sir Henry Raeburn's portrait of Malcolm Laing, the historian Andrew Wylie, Esquire, Provost of Stromness, for the portraits of Dr Rae and David Vedder; and J. A. Harvie-brown: Esquire, Dunipace House, Stirlingshire, for the photograph of the Great Auk's resting-place.

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