Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Fauna Orcadensis, or the Natural History of the Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, of Orkney and Shetland
The following sketch Of the Natural History of the Orkney Islands was at first designed as an information of what might be remarkable here to a gentleman whose writings on the i same subject do him honour, and are well known to the pub lic. But by degrees swelling to some bulk, by his advice it was thrown into a systematic arrangement, and now appears as a separate work.
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