The English Illustrated Magazine, 32 tomasMacmillan and Company, 1905 |
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... Lerwick is the capital and the largest town in the islands . Out of the very sea it seems to rise , some of the grey old houses at the south end standing , not at the water's edge , but fairly on the bed of the ocean . From the windows ...
... Lerwick is the capital and the largest town in the islands . Out of the very sea it seems to rise , some of the grey old houses at the south end standing , not at the water's edge , but fairly on the bed of the ocean . From the windows ...
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... Lerwick is much indebted to these same Dutchmen . Not only did they found the town - for their own convenience , it is true in the beginning of the 17th cen- tury , but at the present day they add a note of picturesqueness , for which ...
... Lerwick is much indebted to these same Dutchmen . Not only did they found the town - for their own convenience , it is true in the beginning of the 17th cen- tury , but at the present day they add a note of picturesqueness , for which ...
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... Lerwick has been increased from one man to three . But the one man was endowed with so strong a sense of his own importance that he did the work of ten . Naturally he was as well - known as the town clock , and he had besides a pecu ...
... Lerwick has been increased from one man to three . But the one man was endowed with so strong a sense of his own importance that he did the work of ten . Naturally he was as well - known as the town clock , and he had besides a pecu ...
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... Lerwick before some of our friends in London had heard of it . Even the thril- ling intelli- gence that a countess of sorts has mar- ried a coach- man , by mis- take , is flashed along the wires to these northern is- lands . So that the ...
... Lerwick before some of our friends in London had heard of it . Even the thril- ling intelli- gence that a countess of sorts has mar- ried a coach- man , by mis- take , is flashed along the wires to these northern is- lands . So that the ...
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... Lerwick let me recommend the visitor to cross over to Bressay , the island which forms , with Lerwick , one of the best natural harbours in Scotland . There he will see the " Holm of Noss , " of which I have given a sketch . Access to ...
... Lerwick let me recommend the visitor to cross over to Bressay , the island which forms , with Lerwick , one of the best natural harbours in Scotland . There he will see the " Holm of Noss , " of which I have given a sketch . Access to ...
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